Ecclesiastes 7:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise – why destroy yourself?

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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 for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, and she took of its fruit and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

Job 11:12

But a senseless man takes heart when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man!

Job 28:28

And He said to man, ‘See, the fear of יהוה, that is wisdom, and to turn from evil is understanding.’ ”

Proverbs 23:4

Do not labour to be rich. Cease from your own understanding!

Proverbs 25:16

Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, Lest you be satisfied with it and vomit.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

And besides these, my son, be warned – the making of many books has no end, and much study is a wearying of the flesh.

Matthew 23:29

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

Matthew 23:38

“See! Your house is left to you laid waste,

Matthew 23:5

“And they do all their works to be seen by men, and they make their t’fillen wide and lengthen the tzitziyot of their garments,

Matthew 9:14

Then the taught ones of Yoḥ

Luke 18:12

‘I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I possess.’

Romans 10:2

For I bear them witness that they have an ardour for Elohim, but not according to knowledge.

Romans 11:25

For I do not wish you to be ignorant of this secret, brothers, lest you should be wise in your own estimation, that hardening in part has come over Yisra’ĕ

Romans 12:3

For I say, through the favour which has been given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he should think, but to think soberly, as Elohim has given to each a measure of belief.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish, so that he might become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:20

and again, “יהוה  knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are worthless.”

Philippians 3:6

according to ardour, persecuting the assembly; according to righteousness that is in the law, having become blameless.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one deprive you of the prize, one who takes delight in false humility and worship of messengers, taking his stand on what he has not seen, puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Colossians 2:23

These indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed worship, humiliation and harsh treatment of the body – of no value at all, only for satisfaction of the flesh.

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods which Elohim created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Revelation 18:19

“And they threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, and saying, ‘Woe! Woe, the great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she was laid waste.’