Ecclesiastes 14:18

Nova Vulgata

Possidebunt simplices stultitiam, et astuti coronabuntur scientia.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Possidebunt parvuli stultitiam, et exspectabunt astuti scientiam.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Possidebunt parvuli stultitiam,
et exspectabunt astuti scientiam.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

inherit: Proverbs 3:35, Proverbs 11:29, Jeremiah 16:19, Jeremiah 44:17, Matthew 23:29-32, 1 Peter 1:18

the prudent: Proverbs 4:7-9, Proverbs 11:30, Daniel 12:3, 2 Timothy 4:8, 1 Peter 5:4

Reciprocal: Psalms 65:11 - crownest Proverbs 7:7 - the simple Acts 13:7 - a prudent

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The simple inherit folly,.... It is natural and hereditary to them, they are born like wild asses colts; the foolish sayings and proverbs, customs and practices, of their ancestors, though they have been demonstrated to be mere folly, yet these, their posterity, approve them; they love, like, and retain them as their patrimony, Job 11:12. Such are the foolish traditions, customs, principles, and doctrines, of the church of Rome, handed down from father to son; and because Popery is the religion they have been bred and brought up in, though so foolish and absurd, they will not relinquish it;

but the prudent are crowned with knowledge; natural, civil, and spiritual, especially the latter; evangelical knowledge, the knowledge of Christ, and of God in Christ, and of Gospel truths; they are honoured with an acquaintance with them; and they esteem the knowledge of these above all things else, and reckon all things else but loss and dung in comparison of them; they are as a crown unto them, and the knowledge of them is the way to the crown of life; yea, is itself life eternal, Philippians 3:8. Or, they "crown themselves with knowledge" p; they labour after it, pursue it with eagerness, follow on to know the Lord, and attain to a large share of it; surround, encompass, and lay hold upon it, and gird themselves about with this girdle of truth. Or, "they crown knowledge" q; do honour to that, by putting it in practice; by adding to it temperance, and every virtue, and by bringing others to it; and are an ornament to it in their lives and conversation; they adorn the doctrine of God their Saviour.

p יכתירו דעת "imponent coronam sibi scientiam", Montanus; "coronant se scientia", Piscator, so Ben Melech. q "Coronabunt scientiam", Baynus; "ornant scientiam", Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Crowned - The teacher anticipates the truth, and the paradox, of the Stoic saying, “The wise is the only king.”