Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
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Gill's Exposition
Be not over much wicked,.... Not that a man should be wicked at all; but some, observing that wicked men prolong their days in wickedness, are encouraged to go into greater lengths in sin than they…
The days of my vanity - This does not imply that those days of vanity were ended (see Ecc 1:12 note). The meaning may be best explained by a paraphrase. Solomon states how the wise man should regard…
Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are liable to, by reason of the vanity and vexation of spirit that there are in the…
Cambridge Bible
Be not over much wicked There seems something like a paradox in the counsel. Surely, we think, the teacher is carrying his doctrine of the mean too far when he gives a precept, which, by forbidding…
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