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Ec 7:11 King James Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Rather, "Wisdom, as compared with an inheritance, is good," that is, is as good as an inheritance; "yea, better (literally, and a profit) to them that see the sun" (that is, the living, Ecc 11:7; Job 3:16; Psa 49:19).
 
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19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
20 Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
25 DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.