Verse 17
Ecclesiastes 7:17
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
17
Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest thou become stupid.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אַל תִּרְשַׁ֥ע הַרְבֵּ֖ה וְ/אַל תְּהִ֣י סָכָ֑ל לָ֥/מָּה תָמ֖וּת בְּ/לֹ֥א עִתֶּֽ/ךָ
English Translation
Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool; why should you die before your time?
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 7 Context
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What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for...
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A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put i...
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Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the countenance the mind of the offender is...
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The heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of fools where there is mirth.
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It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattery of fools.
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For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is v...
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Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart.
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Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.
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10
Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.
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Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this m...
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12
Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun.
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For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence : but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they...
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14
Consider the works of God (Elohim), that no man can correct whom he hath despised.
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In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God (Elohim) hath made...
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These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked...
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Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest thou become stupid.
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Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before thy time.
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It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand: for he that...
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Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city.
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For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.
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But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling...
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For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others.
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I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me,
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Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?
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I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and...
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And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net,...
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Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the...
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Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman a...
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Only this I have found, that God (Elohim) made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infi...
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