Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options

Ecclesiastes 12:9-11
Lexham English Bible

Epilogue

9 The Teacher[a] was full of wisdom, and he taught the people with knowledge. He carefully considered many proverbs and carefully arranged them. 10 The Teacher[b] sought to find delightful words,[c] and he wrote[d] what is upright—truthful words.

11 The words of the wise are like cattle goads; the collections of the sages are like pricks inflicted by one shepherd.[e]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 12:9 Hebrew “Qohelet”
  2. Ecclesiastes 12:10 Hebrew “Qohelet”
  3. Ecclesiastes 12:10 Hebrew “words of delight”
  4. Ecclesiastes 12:10 The MT reads the term passively, “what is written,” but an alternate textual tradition reads, “and he wrote”
  5. Ecclesiastes 12:11 Or “The owner of collections are given by one shepherd”
Next
Ecclesiastes 11
Song of Solomon 1
Next
dropdown
Lexham English Bible (LEB)

2012 by Logos Bible Software. Lexham is a registered trademark of Logos Bible Software