Ecclesiastes 7:16
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
16 Be not [morbidly exacting and externally] righteous overmuch, neither strive to make yourself [pretentiously appear] overwise—why should you [get puffed up and] destroy yourself [with presumptuous self-sufficiency]?
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Ecclesiastes 7:16
New Living Translation
16 So don’t be too good or too wise! Why destroy yourself?
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Ecclesiastes 7:16
New International Version
16 Do not be overrighteous,
neither be overwise—
why destroy yourself?
Ecclesiastes 7:16
King James Version
16 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?
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