Eccl 7:16

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Be not.

This verse is probably the language of an ungodly man; to which Solomon answers, as in the following verse, "Do not multiply wickedness; do not add direct opposition to godliness, to the rest of your crimes.

Why should you provoke God to destroy you before your time?"

Prov 25:16; Matt 6:1-7; Matt 9:14; Matt 15:2-9; Matt 23:5; Matt 23:23; Matt 23:24; Matt 23:29; Luke 18:12; Rom 10:2 Phil 3:6; 1Tim 4:3

neither.

Eccl 12:12; Gen 3:6; Job 11:12; Job 28:28; Prov 23:4; Rom 11:25; Rom 12:3

1Cor 3:18; 1Cor 3:20; Col 2:18; Col 2:23; Jas 3:13-17

destroy thyself. Heb. be desolate.

Matt 23:38; Rev 18:19