Ecclesiastes 7:17
If you do what is evil or do what is foolish, you might die while you are still young.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 38:7But Er did something that Yahweh considered to be very wicked, so Yahweh caused him to die.
Job 15:32Before they are old, they will wither; they will be like [MET] branches that wither and never become green again.
Psalms 55:23God, you will cause murderers [MTY] and liars to die before they have lived half as long as they expect to live; but as for me, I will trust in you.
Jeremiah 2:33You know how to easily find gods from other countries whom you can love. You can find them as easily as a prostitute can find men to sleep with.
Ezekiel 16:20And you even took your sons and daughters who were as though they were [MET] my children, and sacrificed them to be food for the idols. That was much worse [RHQ] than your becoming a prostitute.
Acts 5:10Immediately Sapphira fell down dead at Peter’s feet. Then the young men came in. When they saw that she was dead, they carried her body out and buried it beside her husband’s body.
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 →