Ecc 11:7
Truly the light {is} sweet, and a pleasant {thing it is} for the eyes to behold the sun:
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That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Wisdom {is} good with an inheritance: and {by it there is} profit to them that see the sun. {good...: or, as good as an inheritance, yea, better too}
The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: {and} a good report maketh the bones fat.
For the LORD God {is} a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good {thing} will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes. {the deceitful...: or, the usurer}
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known {any thing}: this hath more rest than the other.
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. {He...: or, He hath delivered my soul, etc, and my life}
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: {wilt} not {thou deliver} my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
And God saw the light, that {it was} good: and God divided the light from the darkness. {the light from...: Heb. between the light and between the darkness}
Wisdom {is} good with an inheritance: and {by it there is} profit to them that see the sun. {good...: or, as good as an inheritance, yea, better too}
The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: {and} a good report maketh the bones fat.
Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. {that...: Heb. that there is an excellency in wisdom more than in folly, etc}
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: