Ecclesiastes 7:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

I applied my heart to know, to search, and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even foolishness and madness.

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  • Eccl 10:13 : 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously? 2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their hearts.
  • 2 Pet 2:3-9 : 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber. 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; 5 And did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemning them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; 7 And delivered righteous Lot, who was distressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked: 8 For that righteous man, dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds. 9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment;
  • 2 Pet 3:3-9 : 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens existed of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 By which the world that then existed, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved for fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is patient toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
  • Gen 34:7 : 7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it, and they were grieved and very wroth because he had wrought folly in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, a thing that ought not to be done.
  • Josh 7:13 : 13 Get up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus says the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of you, O Israel: you cannot stand before your enemies, until you take away the accursed thing from among you.
  • 2 Sam 13:12 : 12 And she answered him, No, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing should be done in Israel: do not commit this disgrace.
  • Prov 17:12 : 12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man rather than a fool in his folly.
  • Prov 26:11 : 11 As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.
  • Eccl 1:13-17 : 13 And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this difficult task God has given to the children of man to be engaged with. 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind. 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is lacking cannot be counted. 16 I communed with my own heart, saying, Look, I have attained great stature, and gained more wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem: yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. 17 And I set my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after wind.
  • Eccl 2:1-3 : 1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure." And behold, this also is vanity. 2 I said of laughter, "It is madness," and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?" 3 I searched in my heart to give myself to wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what is good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.
  • Eccl 2:12 : 12 I turned to consider wisdom, madness, and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.
  • Eccl 2:15 : 15 So I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me. And why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart, "This also is vanity."
  • Eccl 2:20 : 20 Therefore I turned my heart to despair over all the labor which I had done under the sun.
  • Eccl 3:16-17 : 16 Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. 17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time for every purpose and for every work.
  • Eccl 7:27 : 27 Behold, this have I found, says the preacher, counting one by one to find out the sum.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he who swears, as he who fears an oath. 3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that, they go to the dead.

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  • Eccl 1:13-18
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    13And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this difficult task God has given to the children of man to be engaged with.

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

    15That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is lacking cannot be counted.

    16I communed with my own heart, saying, Look, I have attained great stature, and gained more wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem: yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

    17And I set my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after wind.

    18For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

  • Eccl 2:1-3
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    1I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure." And behold, this also is vanity.

    2I said of laughter, "It is madness," and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

    3I searched in my heart to give myself to wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what is good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.

  • Eccl 7:23-24
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    23All this have I tested by wisdom. I said, 'I will be wise,' but it was far from me.

    24That which is far off and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the work that is done upon the earth (for there are those who neither day nor night see sleep with their eyes),

    17Then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Even though a man labors to seek it out, he shall not find it; moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, he shall not be able to find it.

  • Eccl 2:10-15
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    10And whatever my eyes desired, I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my reward from all my labor.

    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

    12I turned to consider wisdom, madness, and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.

    13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly just as light excels darkness.

    14The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I myself perceived that the same event happens to them all.

    15So I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me. And why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart, "This also is vanity."

  • Eccl 2:19-20
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    19And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I have labored and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

    20Therefore I turned my heart to despair over all the labor which I had done under the sun.

  • Eccl 7:4
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    4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of laughter.

  • Prov 8:12
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    12I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

  • Prov 7:7
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    7And saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking understanding,

  • Eccl 7:26-27
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    26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.

    27Behold, this have I found, says the preacher, counting one by one to find out the sum.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart frets against the LORD.

  • Prov 18:1-2
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    1Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddles with all wisdom.

    2A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may express itself.

  • Prov 15:14
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    14The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

  • Ps 73:16
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    16When I thought to understand this, it was too painful for me;

  • Prov 17:16
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    16Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no desire for it?

  • Prov 14:8
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    8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • Prov 8:5
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    5O simple ones, understand wisdom; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

  • Prov 1:2
    74%

    2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

  • Prov 18:15
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    15The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

  • Prov 1:6
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    6To understand a proverb and the interpretation, the words of the wise and their riddles.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but what is in the heart of fools is made known.

  • Job 28:12
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    12But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me:

  • Prov 17:24
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    24Wisdom is in the sight of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

  • Job 42:3
    72%

    3Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

  • Prov 8:14
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    14Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, I have strength.

  • Prov 2:10
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    10When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;

  • Prov 15:7
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    7The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but the heart of the foolish does not.

  • Eccl 7:7
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    7Surely oppression makes a wise man mad, and a bribe destroys the heart.

  • Eccl 2:25
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    25For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

  • Prov 16:22
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    22Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

  • Prov 2:2
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    2So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;