12For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
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For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
And 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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-22)Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are liable to, by reason of the vanity and vexation of spirit that there are in the things of this world. Here are some of the praises and the precepts of wisdom. I. The praises of wisdom. Many things are here said in its commendation, to engage us to get and retain wisdom. 1. Wisdom is…
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