Ecclesiastes 7:17
Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
In Context
16Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
Cross References
Genesis 38:7Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the LORD’s sight. So the LORD killed him.
Job 15:32It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
Psalms 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
Jeremiah 2:33How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.
Ezekiel 16:20“‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,
Acts 5:10She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and 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 →