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Ecclesiastes 7:17

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Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

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Verse 17. Over just, that is By an excessive rigour in censuring the ways of God in bearing with the wicked. Challoner.—Give not way to scruples, (Saint Bernard) nor to self-conceit. Alcuin.—Become. Hebrew “perish,” being oppressed with majesty. Lorin. Tirinus. Calmet.

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