Ecclesiastes 9:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

Ecclesiastes 9:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 3:17-18
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. …
Proverbs 28:23
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
James 1:20
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Isaiah 42:2
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
1 Samuel 7:3-6
And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-18)

Solomon still recommends wisdom to us as necessary to the preserving of our peace and the perfecting of our business, notwithstanding the vanities and crosses which human affairs are subject to. He had said (Eccl. 9:11), Bread is not always to the wise; yet he would not therefore be thought either to disparage, or to discourage, wisdom, no, he still retains his principle, that wisdom excels folly…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. The words of wise, &c.--Though generally the poor wise man is not heard (Ec 9:16), yet “the words of wise men, when heard in quiet (when calmly given heed to, as in Ec 9:15), are more serviceable than,” &c. ruleth--as the “great king” (Ec 9:14). Solomon reverts to “the rulers to their own hurt” (Ec 8:9).