OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 7:16

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Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

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Verse 16. Vanity, during this miserable life.—Wickedness. This seemed more incongruous under the old law, when long life was promised to the just, ( Calmet. Psalms 72:3. Exodus 20:12) though it chiefly regarded heaven. Bible.

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