Ecclesiastes 7:17
Do not do much wrong, neither be a fool, why do you die within your time?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
In Context
16Do not be over-righteous, nor show yourself too wise, why are you desolate?
Cross References
Genesis 38:7and Er, Judah’s firstborn, is evil in the eyes of YHWH, and YHWH puts him to death.
Job 15:32It is not completed in his day, || And his bending branch is not green.
Psalms 55:23And You, O God, bring them down || To a pit of destruction, || Men of blood and deceit do not reach to half their days, || And I trust in You!
Jeremiah 2:33Why do you make your ways pleasing to seek love? Therefore you have even taught the wicked your ways.
Ezekiel 16:20And you take your sons and your daughters whom you have born to Me, || And sacrifice them to them for food. Is it a little thing because of your whoredoms,
Acts 5:10and immediately she fell down at his feet, and expired, and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried forth, they buried [her] by 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 →