Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ 3 I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Be not [morbidly exacting and externally] righteous overmuch, neither strive to make yourself [pretentiously appear] overwise–why should you [get puffed up and] destroy yourself [with presumptuous self-sufficiency]?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Don’t be too righteous or too wise, or you may be dumbfounded.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ I also saw this, in the days of my vanity: a just man perishing in his justice, and an impious man living a long time in his malice.

Ecclesiastes 7:16 Cross References

Genesis 3:6

And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband who did eat.

Job 11:12

7 And brightness like that of the noonday, shall arise to thee at evening: and when thou shalt think thyself consumed, thou shalt rise as the day star.

Job 28:28

When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?

Proverbs 23:4

1 For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.

Proverbs 25:16

3 The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.

Matthew 23:29

7 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

Matthew 23:38

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places:

Matthew 23:5

3 But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.

Matthew 9:14

2 But Jesus turning and seeing her, said: Be of good heart, daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

Luke 18:12

0 Thou knowest the commandments: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Honour thy father and mother.

Romans 10:2

0 For, with the heart, we believe unto justice; but, with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation.

Romans 11:25

3 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

Romans 12:3

1 In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the Lord.

1 Corinthians 3:18

For I am not conscious to myself of any thing, yet am I not hereby justified; but he that judgeth me, is the Lord.

1 Corinthians 3:20

But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes; that in us you may learn, that one be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is written.

Philippians 3:6

5 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded; and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, this also God will reveal to you.

Colossians 2:18

When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall appear with him in glory.

Colossians 2:23

Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

1 Timothy 4:3

2 Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

Revelation 18:19

And the four and twenty ancients, and the four living creatures fell down and adored God that sitteth upon the throne, saying: Amen; Alleluia.