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Ecclesiastes 7:17 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 7 · verse 17
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?Ecclesiastes 7:17 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 7:17 in context
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?
18It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.
19Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
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Key words (Strong's)
- foolishçâkâlsillyH5530 →
- wickedrâshaʻto be wrongH7561 →
- muchrâbâhto increaseH7235 →
- diemûwthto dieH4191 →
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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