Ecclesiastes 7:11
“Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Wisdom is good with an inheritance,.... It is good of itself. Or, "is as good as an inheritance" (n), as it may be…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
And by it there is profit ... - literally, And is profitable to the living. The same word as in Ecc 6:11, to the…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Ecclesiastes 7:11-22
Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
Wisdom is good with an inheritance The words fall on our ears with something like a ring of cynicism, as though the…
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