Ecclesiastes 7:23
All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" but it was far from me.
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- Rom 1:22 : 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
- 1 Cor 1:20 : 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
- Gen 3:5 : 5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
- 1 Kgs 3:11-12 : 11 God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice; 12 behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like you.
- 1 Kgs 11:1-8 : 1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; 2 of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, "You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon joined to these in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. 4 For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father. 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6 Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father. 7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
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24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
- Eccl 1:13-186 verses77%
13 I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
15 That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.
16 I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."
17 I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
18 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
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16 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;
- Eccl 2:11-155 verses75%
11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
12 I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.
13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
15 Then I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
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13 I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.
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3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
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17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.
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22 for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.
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12 "I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.
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9 So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.
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27 "Behold, I have found this," says the Preacher, "one to another, to find out the scheme;
- Eccl 2:1-33 verses71%
1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this also was vanity.
2 I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"
3 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
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3 I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
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3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?
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13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?
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12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
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10 But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
- Eccl 2:19-202 verses71%
19 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
20 Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
- Eccl 7:15-162 verses71%
15 All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
16 Don't be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
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6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
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7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
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20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?
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24 Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
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3 I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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8 "If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;
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1 An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
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14 Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
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1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.
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17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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29 Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes."
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3 For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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3 Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.
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16 Then I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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1 "Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
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23 Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?