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Ecclesiastes 7:17

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Ecclesiastes 7:17

Verse 17 of 29

Scripture focus

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

Ecclesiastes 7:17 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Ecclesiastes 7:17

Theological / Devotional

Over much wicked. Do not cast off all restraint; eventually the point is reached where the Holy Spirit is no longer able to bring about sincere repentance. Beware of ignoring or underestimating God (Ps. 10:11; cf. Mal. 1:2, 6 ; 2:17; 3:8, 13).

Foolish. The man who sins deliberately, deceiving himself into the belief that God ignores what he does, may become so obsessed with a certain course of action that, in his spiritual blindness, he comes to think there is no God at all (Ps. 14:1).

Before thy time. Wicked excesses often result in premature death, as with the antediluvians (Job 22:16) and wicked men of later days (Ps. 55:23; Prov. 10:27).

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