Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness.

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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.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁶ Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Ecclesiastes 7:16 Tagairtí Cros

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

A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt.

Job 28:28

And he said to man: Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

Proverbs 23:4

Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.

Proverbs 25:16

Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

More than these, my son, require not. Of making many books there is no end: and much study is an affliction of the flesh.

Matthew 23:29

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just,

Matthew 23:38

Behold, you house shall be left to you, desolate.

Matthew 23:5

And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.

Matthew 9:14

Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but thy disciples do not fast?

Luke 18:12

I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.

Romans 10:2

For I bear them witness, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Romans 11:25

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, (lest you should be wise in your own conceits), that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.

Romans 12:3

For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety, and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no man deceive himself: if any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

1 Corinthians 3:20

And again: The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

Philippians 3:6

According to zeal, persecuting the church of God; according to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.

Colossians 2:18

Let no man seduce you, willing in humility, and religion of angels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up by the sense of his flesh,

Colossians 2:23

Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in superstition and humility, and not sparing the body; not in any honour to the filling of the flesh.

1 Timothy 4:3

Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful, and by them that have known the truth.

Revelation 18:19

And they cast dust upon their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, wherein all were made rich, that had ships at sea, by reason of her prices: for in one hour she is made desolate.