🌀WEB · Ecclesiastes 7:17
What does Ecclesiastes 7:17 mean?
"Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?"
— Ecclesiastes 7:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also from that don’t withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will come out of them all.
Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn’t sin.
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