Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ecclesiastes 7:17
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.
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.
Verse 17. _BE NOT OVERMUCH WICKED, NEITHER BE THOU FOOLISH: WHY_ _SHOULDEST THOU DIE BEFORE THY TIME?_] אל תרשע הרבה _al tirsha_ _harbeh_. Do not multiply wickedness, do not add direct opposition to g...
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 man should...
PART II. CHAPTER S 7-12 1. The Good Advice of the Natural Man, Discouragement and Failure CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The better things (Ecclesiastes 7:1)_ 2. The anomalies (Ecclesiastes 7:15) 3. The strength...
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 advisab...
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 verses:...
_Be not over much wicked_ There seems something like a paradox in the counsel. Surely, we think, the teacher is carrying his doctrine of the mean too far when he gives a precept, which, by forbidding...
b. Warnings against the wrong interpretations of life Ecclesiastes 7:16-17 TEXT 7:16-17 16 Do not be excessively righteous, and do not be overly wise. Why should you ruin yourself? 17 Do not be e...
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 wicked a...
7:17 foolish. (e-8) As ch. 2.19....
OVER MUCH WICKED] The expression seems strange, as though moderate wickedness were allowable. But the sense is probably as follows: the author had just said, 'Be not righteous over much,' perhaps allu...
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 of l...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 7 The Teacher does not continue to ask questions. Instead, he uses many special sent...
אַל ־תִּרְשַׁ֥ע הַרְבֵּ֖ה וְ אַל ־תְּהִ֣י סָכ
THIRD SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 7:1, and Ecclesiastes 8:1 IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown that the C
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 maxi...
_Over just, viz., By an excessive rigour in censuring the ways of God in bearing with the wicked. (Challoner) --- Give not way to scruples, (St. Bernard) nor to self-conceit. (Alcuin.) --- Become. Heb...
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 aga...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 12. The Book of Ecclesiastes is, up to a certain point, the converse of the Book of Proverbs. (see NOTE TO PROVERBS below) It is the experience of a...
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 ha...
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 free...
Be not overmuch wicked, not as though a little wickedness were permissible, but because an excess of malice is particularly disgusting; NEITHER BE THOU FOOLISH, in deliberately ignoring God and the wi...
A SPIRIT OF SORROW OVER SIN AND ITS ALLUREMENTS...
BEFORE THY TIME? _HEB._NOT IN THY TIME?...
"DO NOT BE EXCESSIVELY WICKED, AND DO NOT BE. FOOL. WHY SHOULD YOU DIE BEFORE YOUR TIME?" Of course, Solomon isn't saying that. little sin is OK or that sin is find as long as one sins in moderation....
11-22 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, yea better. It shelters from the storms and scorching heat of trouble. Wealth will not lengthen out the natural life; but true wisdom will give spiritual li...
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 defect...
Ecclesiastes 7:17 overly H7235 (H8687) wicked H7561 (H8799) foolish H5530 die H4191 (H8799) time H6256...
THE PREACHER NOW GIVES FURTHER WISDOM TEACHING ABOUT LIFE (ECCLESIASTES 7:15). Ecclesiastes 7:15 ‘All this have I seen in my meaningless and transient life (‘the days of my vanity'). There is a right...
THE IMPORTANCE OF PRACTICAL WISDOM (ECCLESIASTES 7:11). Wisdom As A Defence (Ecclesiastes 7:11). Having wisdom is a good foundation for life, for it provides a form of defence in times of trouble, a...
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 tho...
Ecclesiastes 7 and ECCLESIASTES 8:1 I. The endeavour to secure a competence may be not lawful only, but most laudable, since God means us to make the best of the capacities He has given us and the opp...
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 pro...
CONTENTS: Prudence recommended as a means of avoiding much of the vanity and vexation of the world. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The best way to save ourselves from the vexation which the v...
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 outlive t...
_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 refer...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 7:16 BE NOT OVERLY RIGHTEOUS. One should not always insist on being proved right in an argument. On the other hand, BE NOT OVERLY WICKED, NEITHER BE A FOOL. That is,...
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. The m...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 7:1 Ecclesiastes 12:8.—Division II. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED EXPERIENCES IN THE
Tonight we want to return again to the book of Ecclesiastes beginning with chapter 7. And as we return to the book of Ecclesiastes, again, it is important that we make note of the fact that the book o...
1 Samuel 25:38; Acts 12:23; Acts 5:10; Acts 5:5; Ezekiel 16:20;...