Ecclesiastes 7:12 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Wisdom with riches is more useful and more advantageous, for those who see the sun.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For wisdom is a defense even as money is a defense, but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom shields and preserves the life of him who has it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.

Common English Bible

¹² Wisdom’s protection is like the protection of money; the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the lives of its possessors.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun.

English Standard Version 2016

¹² For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Ecclesiastes 7:12 Tagairtí Cros

Job 1:10

Have you not fortified him, as well as his house and every one of his belongings around him, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession has increased in the land?

Psalm 57:1

Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth will not profit in the day of vengeance. But justice shall liberate from death.

Proverbs 14:20

The pauper will be hated, even by his own neighbor. Yet truly, the friends of the wealthy are many.

Proverbs 2:11

then counsel must guard you, and prudence must serve you,

Proverbs 2:7

He will preserve the salvation of the righteous, and he will protect those who walk in simplicity:

Proverbs 3:18

She is a tree of life to those who overtake her, and he who shall take hold of her is blessed.

Proverbs 8:35

He who finds me, finds life, and he will draw salvation from the Lord.

Proverbs 9:11

For by me, your days will be multiplied and years of life will be added to you.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

While laughing, they make bread and wine, so that the living may feast. And all things are obedient to money.

Ecclesiastes 2:13

And I saw that wisdom surpasses foolishness, so much so that they differ as much as light from darkness.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

It is good for you to support a just man. Furthermore, you should not withdraw your hand from him, for whoever fears God, neglects nothing.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

And so, I declared that wisdom is better than strength. But how is it, then, that the wisdom of the poor man is treated with contempt, and his words are not heeded?

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. And whoever offends in one thing, shall lose many good things.

Isaiah 30:2

You are walking so as to descend into Egypt, and you have not sought answers from my mouth, instead hoping for assistance from the strength of Pharaoh and placing trust in the shadow of Egypt.

Isaiah 32:2

And a man will be like someone hidden from the wind, who conceals himself from a storm, or like rivers of waters in a time of thirst, or like the shadow of a rock that juts out in a desert land.

Isaiah 33:6

And there will be faith in your times: the riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge. For the fear of the Lord is his treasure.

John 12:50

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Therefore, the things that I speak, just as the Father has said to me, so also do I speak."

John 17:3

And this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

Deuteronomy 32:47

For these things have not been entrusted to you to no purpose, but so that each one would live by them, and so that, in doing these, you may continue for a long time in the land, which you will enter upon crossing the Jordan in order to possess it."

Philippians 3:8

Yet truly, I consider everything to be a loss, because of the preeminent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of everything, considering it all to be like dung, so that I may gain Christ,

Judges 9:15

And it responded to them: 'If truly you would appoint me as king, come and rest under my shadow. But if you are not willing, let fire go forth from the bramble, and let it devour the cedars of Lebanon.' "