Ecclesiastes 7:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

Wisdom (is) good ... Rather, 'Wisdom, as compared with an inheritance, is good' - i:e., is as good as an inheritance.

And (by it there is) profit. 'Yea, (it is) better (more excellent than an inheritance, Proverbs 3:14: so Hebrew, yotheer, means in Ecclesiastes 6:8; Ecclesiastes 6:11).

To them that see the sun - i:e., the living (Ecclesiastes 11:7; Job 3:16; Psalms 49:19).

Ecclesiastes 7:11

11 Wisdom is goodd with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.