Ecclesiastes 7:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroyg thyself? ”

• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The days of my vanity - This does not imply that those days of vanity were ended (see Ecclesiastes 1:12 note). The meaning may be best explained by a paraphrase. Solomon states how the wise m...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Be not righteous (m) over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? (m) Do not boast too much of your own justice and wisdom.

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs and Reflections. After asking, What is good for man in life? ( Ecclesiastes 6:12 ), Qoheleth gives us advice as to what a man may do by way of mitigating his worries. First of all it is ad...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  over much: i.e. depending on the merit of good works. over wise: i.e. beyond what is necessary. destroy thyself . make thyself lonely: i.e. forsaken. Compare Job 16:7 .

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 836 AGAINST AN OVER-RIGHTEOUS SPIRIT Ecclesiastes 7:16 . Be not righteous orermuch . THIS is the sheet-anchor of ungodly men. They hate to see a zeal for God and therefore endeavour...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? Why shouldest thou destroy thyself? - תשומם tishshomem, make thyself desolate, so that thou shalt be ob...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Why shouldst thou destroy thyself?— Why shouldest thou be left alone? There is a very remarkable opposition in this and the following verse between the several excesses there mentioned, and a ver...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? Be not righteous over much - forbidding a self-made righteousness of outward performances, in w...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Practical Aphorisms 1-6. Things useful to remember in life. The writer has just warned as that we cannot rely on either the present or the future. We can, however, guide ourselves in the conduct o...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Righteous over – much. — The caution is against morbid scrupulosity and over-rigorism. We may illustrate by the case of the Jews, who refused to defend themselves against their enemies on the Sabba...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THIRD SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean Ecclesiastes 6:1-12 ; Ecclesiastes 7:1-29 , and Ecclesiastes 8:1-15 IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown th...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The preacher now proceeded to the inculcation of indifference toward all the facts of life as the only attitude which is in the least likely to be satisfactory. This he did, first, by a series of max...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? Various have been the opinions concerning the Preacher's meaning in this verse. Common sense, however,...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Be not righteous over much ,.... This is not meant of true and real righteousness, even moral righteousness, a man cannot be too holy or too righteous; but of a show and ostentation of righteousness...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? Ver. 16. Be not righteous over much, neither make, &c. ] Virtue consists in a mediocrity. Omn...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Be not righteous overmuch This verse and the next have a manifest reference to Ecclesiastes 7:15 , being two inferences drawn from the two clauses of the observation there recorded. Solomon may he...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Advantages of Wisdom.       11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This verse and the next have a manifest reference to Ecclesiastes 7:15 , being two inferences drawn from the two clauses of the observation there recorded. And this verse was delivered by Solomon,...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Chapter 7 It Is Good To Be Aware of Death, To Listen To Rebuke, To Behave Wisely, Even Though Life Is Unfair. But The World Is Full of Wickedness. The emphasis of the book from now on includes the...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 7:16 . Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself overwise] This is not intended to inculcate carelessness in moral conduct, nor as a beatitude upon ignorance....

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Scofield Reference Notes

  Be not righteous See; ( Ecclesiastes 7:16 ); ( Ecclesiastes 7:17 ) Natural wisdom: be moderately religious and moderately wicked.

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Ecclesiastes 5:8-7 I. We left Koheleth in the act of exhorting us to fear God. The fear of God, of course, implies a belief in the Divine superintendence of human affairs. This belief Koheleth now...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ecclesiastes 7:1 . A good name is better than precious ointment. Shem, a name; shemen, ointment. The reference is to the embalming of bodies with ointment. See Genesis 48 . Wisdom and virtue outl...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Be not righteous overmuch. The “righteous overmuch” When the worldling sees another anxiously caring for the things of his soul or attending earnestly to the duties of religion, he is apt to re...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 7:1 Ecclesiastes 12:8 .—Division II . DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ABOVE - MENTIONED EXPERIENCES IN THE WAY OF WARNINGS AND RULES OF LIFE . Ec...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Spirit of Sorrow Over Sin and its Allurements

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 3:18 ; 1 Corinthians 3:20 ; 1 Timothy 4:3 ; Colossians 2:18 ; Colossians 2:23 ; Ecclesiastes 12:12 ; Genesis 3:6 ; James 3:13-17 ; Job 11:12 ; Job 28:28 ; Luke 18:12 ; Matth...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Be not — This verse and the next have a manifest reference to Ecclesiastes 7:15 , being two inferences drawn from the two clauses of the observation. Solomon here speaks in the person of an ungodl...

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