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Ecclesiastes 7:15-29 — Wisdom and Foolishness
Eccl.7.15-29
15I have seen everything in my days of vanity : there is a righteous person who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked person who lives long in his wickedness. 16Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? 17Do not be overly wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time? 18It is good that you take hold of this, and also from that do not withdraw your hand; for the one who fears God will come out of them all. 19Wisdom gives strength to the wise person more than ten rulers who are in a city. 20Surely there is no righteous person on earth who does good and does not sin. 21Also, do not take to heart all the words that are spoken, so that you do not hear your servant cursing you. 22For your heart knows that many times you yourself have also cursed others. 23All this I tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me. 24That which is, is far off and deep, very deep. Who can find it? 25I turned, I and my heart, to know, and to explore, and to seek wisdom and schemes, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness. 26And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is nets, and whose hands are bonds. The one who is good before God escapes her, but the sinner is caught by her. 27“See, this I have found,” says Qohelet, "adding one thing to another to find a scheme; 28which my soul still sought, but I did not find: one man out of a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I did not find. 29Only see this, I have found: that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes .
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4/11/2026
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