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7:17. Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest
thou become stupid.
Over just... Viz., By an excessive rigour in censuring the ways of God
in bearing with the wicked.
7:18. Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before
thy time.
Be not overmuch wicked... That is, lest by the greatness of your sin you
leave no room for mercy.
7:19. It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him
withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing.
7:20. Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the
city.
7:21. For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth
not.
7:22. But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest
perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.
7:23. For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil
of others.
7:24. I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise:
and it departed farther from me,
7:25. Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?
7:26. I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider,
and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool,
and the error of the imprudent:
7:27. And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the
hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that
pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be
caught by her.
7:28. Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after
another, that I might find out the account,
7:29. Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among
a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.
7:30. Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath
entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man?
and who hath known the resolution of the word?
Of the word... That is, of this obscure and difficult matter.
Ecclesiastes Chapter 8
True wisdom is to observe God's commandments. The ways of God are
unsearchable.
8:1. The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty
will change his face.
8:2. I observe the mouth of the king, and the commandments of the oath
of God.
8:3. Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an
evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him:
8:4. And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why
dost thou so?
8:5. He that keepeth the commandment, shall find no evil. The heart of a
wiser man understandeth time and answer.
8:6. There is a time and opportunity for every business, and great
affliction for man:
8:7. Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot
know by any messenger.
8:8. It is not in man's power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power
in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand,
neither shall wickedness save the wicked.
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