Ecclesiastes 7:16 - King James 2000

¹⁶ Be not 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

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Job 11:12

For a vain man will be wise, when a man is born a wild donkey’s colt.

Job 28:28

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

Proverbs 23:4

Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

Proverbs 25:16

Have you found honey? eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled with it, and vomit it.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

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

Matthew 23:29

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous,

Matthew 23:38

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Matthew 23:5

But all their works they do to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

Matthew 9:14

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

Luke 18:12

I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

Romans 10:2

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

Romans 11:25

For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.

Romans 12:3

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

1 Corinthians 3:18

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

1 Corinthians 3:20

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

Philippians 3:6

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

Colossians 2:18

Let no man deceive you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Colossians 2:23

Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any value to the indulgence of the flesh.

1 Timothy 4:3

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them who believe and know the truth.

Revelation 18:19

And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her wealth! for in one hour is she made desolate.