Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

¹⁶ Thou shalt not be greatly just; and thou shalt not be exceedingly wise: wherefore wilt thou be made desolate?

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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

And the woman will see that the tree is good for food, and that it is a desire to the eyes, and a tree desired to make wise; and she will take from its fruit and will eat, and will give also to her man with her, and he will eat

Job 11:12

And man being empty will be without heart: and man will be born a wild ass's colt

Job 28:28

And he will say to man, Behold, the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Proverbs 23:4

Thou shalt not labor to become rich: cease from thy wisdom.

Proverbs 25:16

Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

And besides, from these, my son, beware: of making many books, no end; and much study wearies the flesh.

Matthew 23:29

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and deck the monuments of the just,

Matthew 23:38

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

Matthew 23:5

And all their works do they, to be seen by men: and make broad their preservatives, and enlarge the border of their garments

Matthew 9:14

Then came to him the disciples of John; saying, Wherefore do we and the Pharisees fast much, and thy disciples fast not?

Luke 18:12

I fast twice of the Sabbath; I pay tithes of all I possess.

Romans 10:2

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

Romans 11:25

For I will not ye should not know, brethren, this mystery, lest ye be wise with yourselves; for hardness from part has been to Israel, till the filling up of the nations come in.

Romans 12:3

For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise.

1 Corinthians 3:20

And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.

Philippians 3:6

For zeal, driving out the church; for justice in the law, not to be found fault with.

Colossians 2:18

Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

Colossians 2:23

Which things truly are having the word of wisdom in worship according to one's will, and humility, and prodigality of the body; not in any honour to satisfying the flesh.

1 Timothy 4:3

Hindering to marry, to keep from victuals which God created for participation, with thanks, for the faithful and them knowing the truth.

Revelation 18:19

And they cast earth upon their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all having ships in the sea were rich by her value! for in one hour was she rendered a desert.