Ecclesiastes 7:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? ”

• Ecclesiastes 7:17 - 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 7:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Be not (n) over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? (n) Do not tarry long when you are admonished to come out of the way of wickedness.

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• Ecclesiastes 7:17 - 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 7:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Be not over much wicked . Be not very wicked: i.e. Be not wicked at all. For violation of nature's laws surely end in premature death. foolish . stupid. Hebrew. sakal; not the same word as in ve...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? - אל תרשע הרבה al ti...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? Over much wicked - so worded to answer to "righteous over much." It does not imply that we may be wic...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:17 - 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 7:17 - 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 7:17 - 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 7:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? Here the wise man takes the reverse of the proposition, and cautions against overmuch wickedness. But here a...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Be not over much wicked ,.... Not that a man should be wicked at all; but some, observing that wicked men prolong their days in wickedness, are encouraged to go into greater lengths in sin than they...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? Ver. 17. Be not wicked over much, ] viz., Because thou seest some wicked men live long, and scape scot fre...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:17 - 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 7:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Be not over-much wicked; do not take occasion, either from the impunity of sinners, Ecclesiastes 7:15 , or from the prohibition of excessive righteousness, to run into the contrary extreme, the...

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• Ecclesiastes 7:17 - 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 7:17 - 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 7:17 - 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 7:17 - 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 7:17 - 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 7:17 - 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 7:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Spirit of Sorrow Over Sin and its Allurements

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• Ecclesiastes 7:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 25:38 ; Acts 12:23 ; Acts 5:10 ; Acts 5:5 ; Ezekiel 16:20 ; Ezekiel 8:17 ; Genesis 38:7-10 ; James 1:21 ; Jeremiah 2:33 ; Jeremiah 2:34 ; Job 15:32 ; Job 15:33 ; Proverbs 10:27...

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