Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁶ Don't be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you 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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

Job 11:12

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

Job 28:28

To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'*

Proverbs 23:4

Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Proverbs 25:16

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Matthew 23:29

*Woe to you, scribes and Perushim, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

Matthew 23:38

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

Matthew 23:5

But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their tefillin broad, enlarge the tzitziyot of their garments,

Matthew 9:14

Then Yochanan's talmidim came to him, saying, *Why do we and the Perushim fast often, but your talmidim don't fast?*

Luke 18:12

I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'

Romans 10:2

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Romans 11:25

For I don't desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Yisra'el, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Romans 12:3

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:20

And again, *The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.*

Philippians 3:6

concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the Torah, found blameless.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Colossians 2:23

Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Revelation 18:19

They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.