Rashi, on Eccl 7:18

“Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before thy time.”

“It is good that you should take hold of this, etc. Take hold of both righteousness and wickedness. If the righteous prophet told you something that appears to you as wickedness, e.g., what Samuel said to Saul, let it not be light in your eyes to doubt it. will discharge himself of them all both of them, to preserve the righteousness and the wickedness according to their rule.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.