Ecclesiastes 12:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

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  • 1 Kgs 4:32 : 32 He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.
  • Prov 1:1 : 1 The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
  • Prov 10:1 : 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; But a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
  • Prov 25:1 : 1 These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
  • 1 Kgs 8:12-21 : 12 Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 13 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever. 14 The king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood. 15 He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying, 16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel. 17 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 18 But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart: 19 nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name. 20 Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 21 There have I set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
  • 1 Kgs 10:8 : 8 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, [and] who hear your wisdom.

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    10The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

    11The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

    12Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; All is vanity!

  • Eccl 1:12-13
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    12I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

    13I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

  • Eccl 1:16-18
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    16I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."

    17I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

    18For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

  • Prov 9:9
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    9Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

    17then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

  • Eccl 1:1-2
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    1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:

    2"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

  • Prov 1:5-6
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    5That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; That the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

    6To understand a proverb, and parables, The words and riddles of the wise.

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    27Behold, this have I found, says the Preacher, one to another, to find out the scheme;

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    12"I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

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    2To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;

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    15Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

    16Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

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  • Eccl 2:26
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    26For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

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    15The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

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    11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

    12I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

    13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

    14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

    15Then said I in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.

    16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

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    21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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    9So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

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    1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

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    19Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

  • Prov 16:23
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    23The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, And adds learning to his lips.

  • Job 28:27
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    3I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

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    11Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

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    19Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

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    23A prudent man keeps his knowledge, But the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

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    8For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

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    4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

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    9They are all plain to him who understands, Right to those who find knowledge.

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    23All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

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    12With aged men is wisdom, In length of days understanding.

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    12"But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

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    24All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.