Verse 16
Ecclesiastes 7:16
Young's Literal Translation
16
Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise, why art thou desolate?
Original Language Text
hebrew
אַל תְּהִ֤י צַדִּיק֙ הַרְבֵּ֔ה וְ/אַל תִּתְחַכַּ֖ם יוֹתֵ֑ר לָ֖/מָּה תִּשּׁוֹמֵֽם
English Translation
Do not be excessively righteous, and do not be overly wise; why should you destroy yourself?
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Chapter 7 Context
1
Better [is] a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.
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Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of...
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Better [is] sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.
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The heart of the wise [is] in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.
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Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than [for] a man to hear a song of fools,
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For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So [is] the laughter of a fool, even this [is] vanity.
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Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart.
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Better [is] the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better [is] the patient of spirit, than th...
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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.
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Say not thou, 'What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wi...
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Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance, And an advantage [it is] to those beholding the sun.
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For wisdom [is] a defense, money [is] a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom [is],...
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13
See the work of God (Elohim), For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?
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In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that ha...
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The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righ...
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Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise, why art thou desolate?
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Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?
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[It is] good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whos...
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19
The wisdom giveth strength to a wise man, more than wealth the rulers who have been in a city.
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Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.
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Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling th...
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For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.
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All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, 'I am wise,' and it [is] far from me.
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Far off [is] that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?
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I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and t...
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And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart [is] nets and snares, her hands [are]...
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See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason
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(that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman...
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See, this alone I have found, that God (Elohim) made man upright, and they -- they have sought out m...
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