Ecclesiastes 7:18 {19}
Good News Translation
Avoid both extremes. If you have reverence for God, you will be successful anyway.

New Revised Standard Version
It is good that you should take hold of the one, without letting go of the other; for the one who fears God shall succeed with both.

Contemporary English Version
Keep to the middle of the road. You can do this if you truly respect God.

New American Bible
It is good to hold to this rule, and not to let that one go; but the one who fears God will succeed with both.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing.

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Ecclesiastes 11:6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening let not thy hand cease: for thou knowest not which may rather spring up, this or that: and if both together, it shall be the better.

Proverbs 4:25-27 Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established. . . .

Proverbs 8:20 That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures.

Luke 11:42 But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and every herb and pass over judgment and the charity of God. Now these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

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Ecclesiastes 8:12 But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that fear God, who dread his face.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us all hear together the conclusion of the discourse. Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is all man:

Psalm 25:12-14 Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a law in the way he hath chosen. . . .

Psalm 145:19,20 He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and save them. . . .

Jeremiah 32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and will not cease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart, that they may not revolt from me.

Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall leap like calves of the herd.

Luke 1:50 And his mercy is from generation unto generations, to them that fear him.

Context
The Limits of Human Wisdom
17Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before thy time. 18It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing.19Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 3:14
I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared.

Ecclesiastes 5:7
Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear God.

Ecclesiastes 8:12
But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that fear God, who dread his face.

Ecclesiastes 8:13
But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us all hear together the conclusion of the discourse. Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is all man:

Ecclesiastes 7:17
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