Ecclesiastes 7:16-25

16Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

17Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

18It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.

19Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

20Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

21Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you.

22Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.

23All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, "I will be wise," but it was far from me.

24That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?

25I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.