Ecclesiastes 7:15
All this I have seen in my days of vanity. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs [his life] in his evil-doing.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise. Why should thou destroy thyself?
Cross References
1 Samuel 22:18And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod.
2 Chronicles 24:21And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of LORD.
Job 21:7Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow mighty in power?
Psalms 39:6Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.
Ecclesiastes 2:23For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief, yea, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5:16And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he that he labored for the wind?
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:12-23
The Advantages of Wisdom. 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. 13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? 14 In 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.… Read the whole commentary →