Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
10 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “great” →
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.