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An adult rests beneath a twisted olive tree beside an olive basket and bare cracked earth.
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Ecclesiastes 7:11-14

Shade and the Crooked Work

Wisdom Tested at Its Limits · Ecclesiastes 7

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11Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and is an advantage for those who see the sun.

12For wisdom provides shade just as money provides shade, but the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom keeps its possessors alive.

13Consider the work of God, for who can straighten what he has made crooked?

14In a day of prosperity, be joyful; and in a day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will come after him.

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