Pengkhotbah 9:17

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Perkataan orang berhikmat yang didengar dengan tenang, lebih baik dari pada teriakan orang yang berkuasa di antara orang bodoh.

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Perkataan orang berhikmat yang didengar dengan tenang, lebih baik dari pada teriakan orang yang berkuasa di antara orang bodoh.

Contextual Overview

¹³ This wysdome haue I seene also vnder the sunne, and me thought it a great thing: ¹⁴ There was a litle citie and a few men within it: so there came a great kyng and besieged it, and made great bulwarkes against it. ¹⁵ And in the citie there was founde a poore man, but he was wyse, whiche with his wysdome deliuered the citie, yet was there no body that had any respect to such a simple man. ¹⁶ Then sayd I, wysdome is better then strength: Neuerthelesse, a simple mans wysdome is despised, and his wordes are not hearde. ¹⁷ A wyse mans counsayle that is folowed in scilence, is farre aboue the crying of a captaine among fooles. ¹⁸ For wysdome is better then harnesse: but one sinner alone destroyeth muche goodnesse.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 41:33-40, 1 Samuel 7:3-6, Proverbs 28:23, Isaiah 42:2, Isaiah 42:4, James 1:20, James 3:17, James 3:18

Reciprocal: Proverbs 17:27 - an excellent spirit Acts 19:41 - when

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The words of wise [men are] heard in quiet,.... That is, by some persons and at some times, though not by all persons and always; or they are to be heard, or should be heard, though they seldom be, even the words of wise men that are poor: these are to be heard quietly and patiently, without any tumult and contradiction; or should be heard, being delivered with a low and submissive voice, without any noise, or blustering pride, or passion, sedately and with great humility, submitting them to the judgment of others; which sense the comparison seems to require;

more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools; more than the noisy words of a foolish governor; or than the dictates of an imperious man, delivered in a clamorous and blustering way; by which he obtains authority among such fools as himself, who are influenced more by the pomp and noise of words than by the force of true wisdom and reason; but all right judges will give the preference to the former. The Targum interprets it of the silent prayer of the wise being received by the Lord, more than the clamour of the wicked.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. The words of wise men are heard in quiet — In the tumult of war the words of Archimedes were not heard; and his life was lost.