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Ecclesiastes 7:12

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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.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 7:10

    Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

  2. Ecclesiastes 7:11

    Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

  3. Ecclesiastes 7:13

    Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

  4. Ecclesiastes 7:14

    In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.