Ecclesiastes 7:23
All these thinges haue I proued because of wy?dome: for I thought to be wyse, but she wente farther fro me
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- Rom 1:22 : 22 Whan they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles:
- 1 Cor 1:20 : 20 Where are the wyse? Where are ye scrybes? where are ye disputers of this worlde?
- Gen 3:5 : 5 For God doth knowe, that in what daye so euer ye eate of it, youre eyes shalbe opened, and ye shalbe as God, and knowe both good and euell.
- 1 Kgs 3:11-12 : 11 And God sayde vnto him: For so moch as thou axest this, and desyrest not longe lyfe, nether riches, nether ye soules of thine enemies, but vnderstodinge to heare iudgment, 12 beholde, therfore haue I done acordynge to thy wordes. Beholde, I haue geuen the an hert of wy?dome and vnderstondynge, so that soch one as thou hath not bene before the, nether shall ryse vp after the.
- 1 Kgs 11:1-8 : 1 But kynge Salomon loued many outlandish wemen, Pharaos doughter, and wemen of Moab, of Ammo, of Edom, of Sidon, and of Heth, 2 euen of those nacions, that the LORDE spake of vnto the children of Israel: Go not ye vnto them, and let not them come vnto you: they shal surely bowe youre hertes after their goddes: Vnto these dyd Salomon enclyne with affeccion. 3 And he had seuen hundreth wemen to wyues, and thre hundreth concubynes, and his wyues turned his hert asyde. 4 And whan he was now olde, his wyues bowed his hert after straunge goddes, so that his hert was not whole with the LORDE his God, as was the hert of Dauid his father. 5 So Salomon walked after Astaroth the god of the Sidonians, and after Malcom the abhominacion of the Ammonites. 6 And Salomon dyd yt which displeased the LORDE, and folowed not ye LORDE to ye vttemost as dyd his father Dauid. 7 The buylded Salomo an hie place vnto Chamos the abhominacio of ye Moabites (vpon the mount that lyeth before Ierusale) and vnto Moloch the abhominacion of the Ammnnites. 8 Thus dyd Salomon for all his outladish wyues, which brent incense, and offred vnto their goddes.
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- Eccl 7:24-252 verses85%
24 then she was before, yee & so depe that I might not reach vnto her.
25 I applied my mynde also vnto knowlege, and to seke out sciece, wisdome and vnderstondinge: to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly, and the erroure of dotinge fooles.
- Eccl 1:13-186 verses77%
13 applyed my mynde to seke out & search for the knowlege of all thiges yt are done vnder heaue. Soch trauayle & labor hath God geue vnto ye childre of me, to exercyse the selues theri.
14 Thus I haue considered all the thinges that come to passe vnder the Sone, & lo, they are all but vanite & vexacion of mynde.
15 The croked can not be mayde straight, & the fautes ca not be nobred.
16 I comoned wt myne owne herte, sayege: lo, I am come to a greate estate, and haue gotte more wy?dome, the all they yt haue bene before me in Ierusalem. Yee my hert had greate experiece of wy?dome & knowlege,
17 for there vnto I applyed my mynde: yt I might knowe what were wy?dome & vnderstodinge, what were error & foolishnes. And I perceaued yt this also was but a vexacion of mynde:
18 for where moch wy?dome is, there is also greate trauayle & disquietnes: & ye more knowlege a man hath, the more is his care.
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16 Then thought I to vnderstonde this, but it was to harde for me.
- Eccl 2:11-155 verses75%
11 But whan I considered all the workes yt my handes had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therin: lo, all was but vanite and vexacion of mynde, & nothinge of eny value vnder ye Sonne.
12 Then turned I me to considre wy?dome, erroure and foolishnesse (for what is he amonge men, that might be compared to me ye kynge in soch workes?)
13 and I sawe, that wy?dome excelleth foolishnesse, as farre as light doth darknesse.
14 For a wyse man beareth his eyes aboute in his heade, but the foole goeth in the darknesse. I perceaued also that they both had one ende.
15 Then thought I in my mynde: Yf it happen vnto the foole as it doth vnto me, what nedeth me then to laboure eny more for wy?dome? So I confessed within my harte, that this also was but vanite.
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13 This wi?dome haue I sene also vnder ye Sone, & me thought it a greate thinge.
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3 For who can kepe his owne councell so secrete, but it shall be knowne? Therfore haue I spoken vnwysely, seynge these thinges are so hye, and passe myne vnderstondinge.
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17 I vnderstode of all ye workes of God, that it is not possible for a man, to attayne vnto ye workes that are done vnder ye Sonne: and though he bestowe his laboure to seke them out, yet can he not reach vnto the: yee though a wyse man wolde vndertake to knowe them, yet might he not fynde them.
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22 for thine owne hert knoweth, that thou thy self also hast oft tymes spoke euell by other men.
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12 I wysdome haue my dwellynge wt knowlege, and prudent councell is myne owne.
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9 (Shortly) I was greater & in more worshipe, then all my predecessours in Ierusale. For wy?dome remayned with me:
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27 Beholde (sayeth ye preacher) this haue I diligently searched out & proued, yt I might come by knowlege: which as yet I seke, and fynde it not.
- Eccl 2:1-33 verses71%
1 The sayde I thus in my hert: Now go to, I wil take myne ease & haue good dayes. But lo, that was vanite also:
2 in so moch that I sayde vnto laughter: thou art madd, and to myrth: what doest thou?
3 So I thought in my herte, to withdrawe my flesh from wyne, to applye my mynde vnto wy?dome, and to comprehede foolishnes vntill the tyme that (amonge all ye thinges which are vnder ye Sonne) I might se what were best for men to do, so longe as they lyue vnder heauen.
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3 (for I neuerlerned wi?dome) yet haue I vnderstodinge & am wel enfourmed in godly thinges.
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3 But I haue vnderstodinge as well as ye, and am no lesse then ye. Yee who knoweth not these thinges?
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13 Am I able to helpe my self? Is not my strength gone fro me,
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12 How commeth a man then by wy?dome? Where is the place that men fynde vnderstondinge?
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10 As for you, turne you, & get you hence, for I can not se one wyse ma amonge you.
11 My dayes are past, my thoughtes are vanished awaye, which haue vexed myne herte,
- Eccl 2:19-202 verses71%
19 for who knoweth, whether he shalbe a wyse ma or a foole? And yet shal he be lorde of all my labours, which I with soch wy?dome haue taken vnder the Sonne. Is not this a vayne thinge?
20 So I turned me to refrayne my mynde from all soch trauayle, as I toke vnder the Sonne:
- Eccl 7:15-162 verses71%
15 These ij. thiges also haue I cosidred in ye tyme of vanite: yt the iust man perisheth for his rightuousnes sake, & the vngodly liueth in his wickednesse.
16 Therfore be thou nether to rightuous ner ouer wyse, yt thou perish not:
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6 Whither shal I go then from thy sprete? Or, whither shal I fle from thy presence?
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7 & behelde the simple people: & amonge other yonge folkes I spyed one yonge foole
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20 From whece then commeth wy?dome? & where is the place of vnderstondinge?
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24 Wy?dome shyneth in ye face of him yt hath vnderstondinge, but ye eyes of fooles wandre thorow out all lodes.
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3 I wil open vnto ye yet more of myne vnderstondinge, and proue my maker rightuous.
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8 For though I go before, I fynde him not: yf I come behynde, I ca get no knowlege of him:
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1 Who so hath pleasure to sowe discorde, piketh a quarell in euery thinge.
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14 I can geue councell, and be a gyde: I haue vnderstondinge, I haue strength.
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1 For all these thinges purposed I in my mynde to seke out. The righteus and wyse yee and their workes also are in the hande of God: and there is no man that knoweth ether the loue or hate of the thinge that he hath before him.
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17 Thus begane I to be weery of my life, in so moch that I coude awaye with nothinge that is done vnder the Sonne, for all was but vanite & vexacion of mynde:
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29 Lo, this onely haue I founde, that God made man iust & right, but they seke dyuerse sotylties,
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3 And why. I was greued at ye wicked, to se the vngodly in soch prosperite.
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3 A dotinge foole thinketh, yt euery ma doth as foolishly as himself.
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16 Then sayde I: wy?dome is better then strength. Neuertheles, a symple mans wy?dome is despysed, & his wordes are not herde.
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1 Lo, all this haue I sene with myne eye, herde with myne eare, & vnderstonde it.
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23 Am I the God that seeth but the thinge, which is nye at honde, and not that is farre of? saieth the LORDE.