Verse 11
Ecclesiastes 7:11
Bible in Basic English
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Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.
Original Language Text
hebrew
טוֹבָ֥ה חָכְמָ֖ה עִֽם נַחֲלָ֑ה וְ/יֹתֵ֖ר לְ/רֹאֵ֥י הַ/שָּֽׁמֶשׁ
English Translation
Wisdom is better with an inheritance and better for those who see the sun.
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Chapter 7 Context
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A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
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It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the...
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Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.
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The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house o...
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It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the...
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Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no p...
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The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the he...
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The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.
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Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.
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10
Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisd...
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Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.
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Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives l...
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Give thought to the work of God (Elohim). Who will make straight what he has made bent?
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In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God (Elohim) has put the one aga...
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These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteo...
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Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?
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Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?
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It is good to take this in your hand and not to keep your hand from that; he who has the fear of God...
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Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.
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There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
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Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.
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Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.
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All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
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Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?
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I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discove...
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And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and...
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Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,
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For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a...
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This only have I seen, that God (Elohim) made men upright, but they have been searching out all sort...
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