Pengkhotbah 7:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Adalah baik kalau engkau memegang yang satu, dan juga tidak melepaskan yang lain, karena orang yang takut akan Allah luput dari kedua-duanya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Adalah baik kalau engkau memegang yang satu, dan juga tidak melepaskan yang lain, karena orang yang takut akan Allah luput dari kedua-duanya.

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
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

good: Ecclesiastes 11:6, Proverbs 4:25-27, Proverbs 8:20, Luke 11:42

for: Ecclesiastes 8:12, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Psalms 25:12-14, Psalms 145:19, Psalms 145:20, Jeremiah 32:40, Malachi 4:2, Luke 1:50

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:12 - from my youth Nehemiah 2:20 - The God Proverbs 12:13 - but Proverbs 14:26 - fear Proverbs 29:25 - whoso Proverbs 31:30 - she Ecclesiastes 2:3 - and to lay Ecclesiastes 5:7 - but Ecclesiastes 9:2 - as is Isaiah 56:2 - layeth Acts 10:2 - one

Cross-References

Exodus 14:28
And the water returned, and couered the charettes, and the horsemen, and all the hoast of Pharao that came into the sea after them, so that there remayned not one of them.

Job 22:16
Whiche were cut downe out of time, and whose foundation was as an ouerflowing ryuer.

Psalms 69:15
Let not the water fludde drowne me, neither let the deepe swalowe me vp: & let not the pyt shut her mouth vpon me.

Psalms 104:26
There go the shippes, and there is that Leuiathan: whom thou hast made to take his pastime therin.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[It is] good that thou shouldest take hold of this,.... This advice, as the Arabic version, in the several branches of it; neither to be over much righteous or wicked, and over much wise or foolish; to avoid the one and the other, to keep clear of extremes, and pursue the path that is safest; such advice as this it is right to lay hold on, embrace, and hold fast;

yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand; from what follows concerning the fear of God; or "this [and] this" may be rendered "this [and] that" c, and the sense be, lay hold on this, that is, the last part of the advice, not to be over much wicked or foolish, which is often the cause of an immature death; and do not slacken or be remiss in regarding that other and first part of it, not to be over much righteous or wise;

for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all; or escape them all; the phrase is become Rabbinical, that, is, he shall be free or exempt from them all; from over much righteousness and over much wisdom, and over much wickedness or over much folly; the fear of God, which is the beginning of wisdom, is the best preservative from, and antidote against, these things; for a man that fears God is humble, and renounces his own righteousness, and distrusts his own wisdom; he fears to commit sin, and shuns folly.

c So Broughton, Rambachius, and others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. It is good that thou shouldest take hold or this — Do not let such an observation slip: take hold of this; do not forget that. Get what you can in an honest way; but do not forget to get true religion; for he that fears God will be saved from all evil.