Ecclesiastes 7:11

World English Bible (WEB)

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

In context

9 Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

10 Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.

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

12 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

13 Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?

WEB World English Bible: Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
KJV King James Version: Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
BSB Berean Standard Bible: Wisdom, like an inheritance, is good, and it benefits those who see the sun.
ASV American Standard Version: Wisdom is as good as an inheritance; yea, more excellent is it for them that see the sun.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance, And an advantage [it is] to those beholding the sun.
DBY Darby Translation: Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, and profitable to them that see the sun.
WBS Webster Bible: Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.