Ecclesiastes 7:17
Do not try to be overly just, and do not try to be more wise than is necessary, lest you become stupid.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
In Context
18Do not act with great impiety, and do not choose to be foolish, lest you die before your time.
Cross References
Genesis 38:7And it also happened that Er, the first born of Judah, was wicked in the sight of the Lord and was killed by him.
Job 15:32Before his time is completed, he will pass into ruin and his hands will wither away.
Jeremiah 2:33Why are you striving to claim that your way is good, as if to seek my love, when all the while you are also displaying your malice by your own way,
Ezekiel 16:20And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore for me, and you immolated them to be devoured. Is your fornication a small matter?
Acts 5:10Immediately, she fell down before his feet and expired. Then the young men entered and found her dead. And they carried her out and buried her next to her husband.
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 →