Ecclesiastes 7:11 Cross References - Coverdale

¹¹ Wy?dome is better then riches, yee moch more worth then the eye sight.

⁶ Salomo saide: Thou hast done greate mercy vnto my father Dauid thy seruaunt. Like as he walked before the in faithfulnes and righteousnes, and in a true hert with the, & this greate mercy hast thou layed vp for him, and geuen him a sonne to syt vpon his seate, as it is now come to passe. ⁷ Now LORDE my God, thou hast made thy seruaunt kynge in my father Dauids steade: As for me, I am but a small yonge man, knowynge nether my outgoynge ner ingoynge. ⁸ And thy seruaunt is amonge the people whom thou hast chosen: which is so greate, that no man can nombre them ner descrybe them for multitude. ⁹ Geue thy seruaunt therfore an obedient hert, that he maye iudge thy people, & vnderstonde what is good & bad: for who is able to iudge this thy mightie people?

¹⁰ Receaue my doctryne therfore and not syluer, & knowlege more then fyne golde. ¹¹ For wysdome is more worth then precious stones, yee all the thinges that thou cast desyre, are not to be compared vnto it.

¹³ and I sawe, that wy?dome excelleth foolishnesse, as farre as light doth darknesse.

¹⁵ And in the cite there was founde a poore man (but he was wyse) which wt his wy?dome delyuered the cite: yet was there no body, yt had eny respecte vnto soch a symple man. ¹⁶ Then sayde I: wy?dome is better then strength. Neuertheles, a symple mans wy?dome is despysed, & his wordes are not herde. ¹⁷ A wise mans councell that is folowed in sylence, is farre aboue the crienge of a captaine amoge fooles. ¹⁸ For wy?dome is better then harnesse: but one vnthrift alone destroyeth moch good.

⁷ The light is swete, & a pleasaunt thinge is it for the eyes to loke vpon the Sonne.

⁸ And the lorde comended the vnrighteous stewarde, because he had done wysely. For the children of this worlde are in their kynde wyser, the the children of light. ⁹ And I saye vnto you: Make you frendes with the vnrighteous Mammon, yt whan ye shal haue nede, they maye receaue you in to euerlastinge Tabernacles.

¹⁷ Charge the which are riche in this worlde, that they be not proude, ner trust in the vncertayne riches, but in the lyuynge God (which geueth vs abundauntly all thinges to enioye them:) ¹⁸ That they do good: that they be rich in good workes: that they geue and distribute with a good wyll: ¹⁹ gatherynge vp treasure for them selues, a good foundacion, agaynst ye tyme to come, that they maye laye honde on eternall life.