Ecclesiastes 7:15
These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
16Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?
Cross References
1 Samuel 22:18Then the king said to Doeg, You are to put the priests to death. And Doeg the Edomite, turning on the priests and attacking them, put to death that day eighty-five men who took up the ephod.
2 Chronicles 24:21But when they had made a secret design against him, he was stoned with stones, by the king's order, in the outer square of the Lord's house.
Job 21:7Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?
Psalms 39:6\39:5\You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Ecclesiastes 2:23All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 5:16\5:17\All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
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 →