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Eccl. 7:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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shadow.

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Prov. 8:35• ³⁵For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord. (Prov. 8:35)

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wisdom.

Job 1:10• ¹⁰Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. (Job 1:10)

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Job 22:21‑25• ²¹Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
²²Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
²³If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
²⁴Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
²⁵Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. (Job 22:21‑25)

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Prov. 2:7,11• ⁷He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
¹¹Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: (Prov. 2:7,11)

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Prov. 14:20• ²⁰The poor is hated even of his own neighbor: but the rich hath many friends. (Prov. 14:20)

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Prov. 18:10‑11• ¹⁰The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
¹¹The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. (Prov. 18:10‑11)

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Isa. 33:6• ⁶And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the Lord is his treasure. (Isa. 33:6)

a defence.

Heb. a shadow.

Judg. 9:15• ¹⁵And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. (Judg. 9:15)

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Psa. 57:1• ¹<<To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.>> Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. (Psa. 57:1)

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Isa. 30:2• ²That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! (Isa. 30:2)

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Isa. 32:2• ²And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. (Isa. 32:2)

the excellency.

Deut. 30:19‑20• ¹⁹I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
²⁰That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. (Deut. 30:19‑20)

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Deut. 32:47• ⁴⁷For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. (Deut. 32:47)

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Prov. 3:18• ¹⁸She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. (Prov. 3:18)

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Prov. 8:35• ³⁵For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord. (Prov. 8:35)

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Prov. 9:11• ¹¹For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. (Prov. 9:11)

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Prov. 11:4• ⁴Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death. (Prov. 11:4)

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John 12:50• ⁵⁰And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. (John 12:50)

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John 17:3• ³And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (John 17:3)

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Phil. 3:8• ⁸Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, (Phil. 3:8)

• Our writer, ignorant as he confessedly is of this glorious light of divine revelation, still speaks in praise of the feeble glimmer that human wisdom gives. From his point of view, wealth and wisdom are both good―are a “defense” or “shadow” to their possessors; but still that which men generally esteem the most―wealth―is given the second place; for knowledge, or wisdom, has in itself a positive virtue that money lacks. (“Ecclesiastes 7” by F.C. Jennings)

• It “gives life to them that have it,” animates, preserves in life, modifies, at least in measure, the evils from which it cannot altogether guard its possessor. (“Ecclesiastes 7” by F.C. Jennings)

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For wisdom is a defence as money is a defenceb; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom maketh them that possess it to live.

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Lit. "[one is] in the shadow of wisdom [as] in the shadow of money." see Ps. 91.1.