11Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.


In Context

8 Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

9 Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

10 Don't say, |Why were the former days better than these?| For you do not ask wisely about this.

11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

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

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

Ecclesiastes 7:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:11Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:11Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing and benefits those who see the sun.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:11Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:11Wisdom is as good as an inheritance; yea, more excellent is it for them that see the sun.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:11Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, and profitable to them that see the sun.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:11Wisdom is as good as an inheritance: yea, more excellent is it for them that see the sun.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:11Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:11Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And an advantage it is to those beholding the sun.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:11Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.