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Ecclesiastes 7:16-20
English Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 7:16-20
English Standard Version
16 Be not overly righteous, and do not (A)make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? 17 Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. (B)Why should you die before your time? 18 It is good that you should take hold of (C)this, and from (D)that (E)withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.
19 (F)Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
20 Surely (G)there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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