What does Ecclesiastes 7:16 mean?
ESV: Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
NIV: Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise-- why destroy yourself?
NASB: Do not be excessively righteous, and do not be overly wise. Why should you ruin yourself?
CSB: Don't be excessively righteous, and don't be overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
NLT: So don’t be too good or too wise! Why destroy yourself?
KJV: Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
NKJV: Do not be overly righteous, Nor be overly wise: Why should you destroy yourself?
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