Pengkhotbah 7:12

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Karena perlindungan hikmat adalah seperti perlindungan uang. Dan beruntunglah yang mengetahui bahwa hikmat memelihara hidup pemilik-pemiliknya.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Karena perlindungan hikmat adalah seperti perlindungan uang. Dan beruntunglah yang mengetahui bahwa hikmat memelihara hidup pemilik-pemiliknya.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Wysdome with inheritaunce is good, yet better is it with them that without care may beholde the sunne: ¹² For wysdome defendeth aswell as money, and the excellent knowledge & wysdome geueth lyfe vnto hym that hath it in possession. ¹³ Consider the worke of God, how that no man can make the thing straight, whiche he maketh crooked. ¹⁴ Use well the tyme of prosperitie, and remember the tyme of misfortune: for God doth so temper the one and the other, that a man can finde nothing els. ¹⁵ All thinges haue I considered in the time of my vanitie: that the iust man perisheth for his righteousnesse sake, & the vngodly liueth in his wickednesse. ¹⁶ Therfore be thou neither to righteous nor ouer wyse, that thou perishe not. ¹⁷ Be neither to vnrighteous also nor to foolishe, lest thou die before thy time. ¹⁸ It is good for thee to take holde of this, and not to let that go out of thy hande: For he that feareth God, commeth foorth with them all. ¹⁹ Wysdome geueth more courage vnto the wyse, then ten mightie men of the citie. ²⁰ For there is not one iust vpon earth that doth good, and sinneth not.

Bible Verse Review
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wisdom: Job 1:10, Job 22:21-25, Proverbs 2:7, Proverbs 2:11, Proverbs 14:20, Proverbs 18:10, Proverbs 18:11, Isaiah 33:6

a defence: Heb. a shadow, Judges 9:15, Psalms 57:1, Isaiah 30:2, Isaiah 32:2

the excellency: Deuteronomy 30:19, Deuteronomy 30:20, Deuteronomy 32:47, Proverbs 3:18, Proverbs 8:35, Proverbs 9:11, Proverbs 11:4, John 12:50, John 17:3, Philippians 3:8

Reciprocal: Proverbs 4:7 - Wisdom is Proverbs 4:13 - she Proverbs 8:19 - General Proverbs 10:15 - rich Proverbs 14:24 - crown Proverbs 16:16 - General Ecclesiastes 1:15 - crooked Ecclesiastes 2:13 - I saw Ecclesiastes 10:19 - but

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
For after seuen dayes, I wyl rayne vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes: & all substaunce that I haue made, wyll I destroy from the vpper face of the earth.

Genesis 7:17
And the fludde came fourtie dayes vpon the earth, and the waters were increased, and bare vp the arke, whiche was lyft vp aboue the earth.

Exodus 24:18
And Moyses went into the middes of the cloude, and gate hym vp into the moutaine: & Moyses was in the mount fourtie dayes and fourtie nyghtes.

Deuteronomy 9:9
When I was gone vp into the mount, to receaue the tables of stone, the tables of the couenaunt which the Lord made with you, and I abode in the mount fourtie dayes & fourtie nightes, whe I neither did eate bread nor drinke water.

Deuteronomy 9:18
And I fell downe flat before the Lord euen as at the first time, & fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes I did neither eate bread nor drinke water, because of all your sinnes which ye sinned, in doyng wyckedly in the sight of the Lorde in that ye prouoked hym vnto wrath.

Deuteronomy 10:10
And I taryed in the mount, euen as at the first time, fourtie dayes and fourtie nyghtes: and the Lorde hearde me at that tyme also, and the Lorde would not destroy thee.

1 Kings 19:8
And he arose, and dyd eate and drinke, & walked in the strength of that meate fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, euen vnto Horeb the mount of God.

Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted fourtie dayes, and fourtie nightes, he was afterwarde an hungred.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For wisdom [is] a defence, [and] money [is] a defence,.... Or, a "shadow" of refreshment and protection, under which men sit with pleasure and safety; a man by his wisdom, and so by his money, is able to defend himself against the injuries and oppressions of others, and especially when both meet in one and the same man. Jarchi renders and interprets it,

"he that is in the shadow of wisdom is in the shadow of money, for wisdom is the cause why riches come;''

and so the Targum,

"as a man is hid in the shadow of wisdom, so he is hid in the shadow of money, when he does alms with it;''

compare with this Luke 16:9; see Ecclesiastes 7:19. Theognis o has a saying much like this,

"riches and wisdom are always inexpugnable to mortals;''

but the excellency of knowledge [is, that] wisdom giveth life to them that have it; or, "the excellency of the knowledge of wisdom giveth life" p, c. not of natural wisdom, or the knowledge of natural and civil things, the vanity of this is exposed, before by the wise man but the knowledge of God in Christ; the knowledge of Christ, who is the Wisdom of God; and of the Gospel, and of all divine and spiritual things: this is a superior excellency to riches, which often expose a man's life to danger, cannot preserve him from a corporeal death, much less from an eternal one. When this is the excellency of spiritual knowledge, that spiritual life goes along with it; such as are spiritually enlightened are spiritually quickened; live by faith on Christ, whom they know; and, through the knowledge of him, have all things pertaining to life and godliness, and have both a right and meetness for eternal life; yea, this knowledge is life eternal,

John 17:3; see 2 Peter 1:3; and this is the pure gift of Wisdom, or of Christ, and not owing to the merit of men, or works done in obedience to the law, which cannot give this life; see John 17:2 Romans 6:23.

o Sententiae, v. 1153. p ויתרון דעת החכמה תחיה "et praestantia scientiae sapientiae vivificabit", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wisdom is a defense ... - See the margin and Psalms 121:5, i. e., He who is defended from adversity by his wisdom is in as good a position as he who is defended by his riches.

Excellency - literally, Profit.

Giveth life to - literally, “Causes to live,” “makes alive” Proverbs 3:18; the deeper meaning of which is elicited by comparing these words with John 6:63; Matthew 4:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 7:12. Wisdom is a defence — To whom Solomon answers: All true wisdom is most undoubtedly a great advantage to men in all circumstances; and money is also of great use: but it cannot be compared to wisdom. Knowledge of Divine and human things is a great blessing. Money is the means of supporting our animal life: but wisdom - the religion of the true God - gives life to them that have it. Money cannot procure the favour of God, nor give life to the soul.