Ecclesiastes 7:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

Ecclesiastes 7:17 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Job 22:16
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Psalms 55:23
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Acts 12:23
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Acts 5:5
And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-22)

Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are liable to, by reason of the vanity and vexation of spirit that there are in the things of this world. Here are some of the praises and the precepts of wisdom. I. The praises of wisdom. Many things are here said in its commendation, to engage us to get and retain wisdom. 1. Wisdom is…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. over much wicked--so worded, to answer to “righteous over much.” For if not taken thus, it would seem to imply that we may be wicked a little. “Wicked” refers to “wicked man” (Ec 7:15); “die before thy time,” to “prolongeth his life,” antithetically. There may be a wicked man spared to “live long,” owing to his avoiding gross excesses (Ec 7:15). Solomon says, therefore, Be not so foolish (answ…