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Ecclesiastes 7:13
For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them.
Ecclesiastes 7:13 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Ecclesiastes 7:13 in other translations
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?
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In context
10 Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.
11 Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.
12 Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun.
13 For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them.
14 Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.
15 In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.
16 These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness.
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