Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Y'all Version Bible

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 some of its fruit and ate. Then she gave some to her man who was with her, and he ate it too.

Job 11:12

An empty-headed person will become wise when wild donkey’s colt is born a human!

Job 28:28

To humankind he said, ‘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 warned: of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearying to the flesh.

Matthew 23:29

“Woe to y’all, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For y’all build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,

Matthew 23:38

Look, your* house is left desolate to y’all.

Matthew 23:5

But they do all their deeds to be seen by humans. They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels of their garments long.

Matthew 9:14

Then John’s disciples came and asked him, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

Luke 18:12

I fast twice a week, and I give a tenth of all that I get.’

Romans 10:2

For I testify about them that they have zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.

Romans 11:25

For I don’t want y’all to be ignorant, siblings, of this mystery, so that y’all won’t be conceited, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the ethnic groups has come in,

Romans 12:3

For through the grace that was given me I say to every one of y’all: do not think of yourself more highly than y’all should. Instead y’all should think with sound judgment, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each person.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive themself. If any of y’all thinks that they are wise in this world, let them become a fool so that they can become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:20

And again, “The Lord [YHWH] knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

Philippians 3:6

regarding zeal, persecuting the assembly; regarding the righteousness that is in the law, found blameless.

Colossians 2:18

Y’all must not let anyone who delights in self-abasement and angel worship defraud y’all. They go into detail about the things they have seen, vainly puffed up by their fleshly mind.

Colossians 2:23

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

1 Timothy 4:3

They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Revelation 18:19

They threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe! Woe to the great city in which all who had ships in the sea became rich from her great wealth!’ For in a single hour she was laid waste.