Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Context
This verse from Ecclesiastes Chapter 9 connects to 10 cross-references. A meditation on the common fate of death that overtakes righteous and wicked alike. The living know they will die but the dead know nothing and have no portion in what happens under the sun. Therefore enjoy life with the …
Other Translations
Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Better <FI>is<Fi> wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!
Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.
Cross References
But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son …
And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the …
Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of …
Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they …
Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the …
Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be …
Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because …
And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and …
Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: …