כִּ֛י בְּצֵ֥ל הַֽחָכְמָ֖ה בְּצֵ֣ל הַכָּ֑סֶף וְיִתְר֣וֹן דַּ֔עַת הַֽחָכְמָ֖ה תְּחַיֶּ֥ה בְעָלֶֽיהָ׃
Sapagkat ang nasa lilim ng karunungan ay nasa lilim din ng salapi; ngunit ito ang kalamangan ng kaalaman: ang karunungan ay nagbibigay-buhay sa mga nagtataglay nito.
Tze'enah Ure'enah
“It is good” [7:12]. With wisdom one can acquire wealth. Wisdom is better than wealth, which makes fools its masters.93Rashi, Ecclesiastes, 7:12.
Rashi
For wisdom shelters [as well] as money shelters. Whoever is in the shade of wisdom is in the shade of money, for wisdom causes eventual wealth.32Alternatively, just as wisdom of the Torah gives life [i.e., shelters] in the World of Come, so does money that is given to charity provide life [i.e., shelters] in the World to Come. (Targum)
Rashi
But the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who possesses it. And moreover, wisdom has an advantage over money, because wisdom preserves the life of its possessors.33Wisdom is not subject to death or consumption. The idea that “wisdom preserves the life of him who possesses it,” may be in reference to the Gemara in Maseches Yevamos 97a, which states that the lips of a deceased scholar in whose name a traditional statement is reported in this world, move gently in the grave. (Reb Tzvi Charif)