Ecclesiastes 7:19–20
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Wisdom Needed Because No One is Truly Righteous
7:19Wisdom gives a wise person more protection66
than ten rulers in a city.
7:20For67 there is not one truly68 righteous person on the earth
who continually does good and never sins.
Footnotes
- 66 Heb “gives strength.”
- 67 The introductory particle כִּי (ki) is rendered variously: “for” (); “indeed” (); not translated (); “for” (). The particle functions in an explanatory sense, explaining the need for wisdom in v. 19. Righteousness alone cannot always protect a person from calamity (7:15–16); therefore, something additional, such as wisdom, is needed. The need for wisdom as protection from calamity is particularly evident in the light of the fact that no one is truly righteous (7:19–20).
- 68 The term “truly” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity. Qoheleth does not deny the existence of some people who are relatively righteous.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful
than ten rulers in a city.
Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,
no one who does what is right and never sins.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Wisdom makes the wise person stronger
than ten rulers of a city.
There is certainly no one righteous on the earth
who does good and never sins.
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NLTNew Living Translation
One wise person is stronger than ten leading citizens of a town!
Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Wisdom gives more strength to the wise
than ten rulers who are in the city.
Surely there is no one righteous on the earth
who continually does good and never sins.
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KJV 1900King James Version
Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
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