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Ecclesiastes 7:15 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 7 · verse 15
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.Ecclesiastes 7:15 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 7:15 in context
13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
15All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
16Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?
17Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- righteousnesstsedeqthe rightH6664 →
- prolongethʼârakto be longH748 →
- perishethʼâbadproperly, to wander awayH6 →
- vanityhebelemptiness or vanityH1892 →
- wickedrâshâʻmorally wrongH7563 →
- seenrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
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Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are liable to, by reason of the vanity and vexation of spirit that there are in the things of this world. Here are some of the praises and the precepts of wisdom. I. The praises of wisdom.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-22