Ecclesiastes 7:23
All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, `I am wise,' and it `is' far from me.
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- Rom 1:22 : 22 professing to be wise, they were made fools,
- 1 Cor 1:20 : 20 where `is' the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?
- Gen 3:5 : 5 for God doth know that in the day of your eating of it -- your eyes have been opened, and ye have been as God, knowing good and evil.'
- 1 Kgs 3:11-12 : 11 and God saith unto him, `Because that thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thee many days, nor asked for thee riches, nor asked the life of thine enemies, and hast asked for thee discernment to understand judgment, 12 lo, I have done according to thy words; lo, I have given to thee a heart, wise and understanding, that like thee there hath not been before thee, and after thee there doth not arise like thee;
- 1 Kgs 11:1-8 : 1 And king Solomon hath loved many strange women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, females of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon, `and' of the Hittites, 2 of the nations of which Jehovah said unto the sons of Israel, `Ye do not go in to them, and they do not go in to you; surely they turn aside your heart after their gods;' to them hath Solomon cleaved for love. 3 And he hath women, princesses, seven hundred, and concubines three hundred; and his wives turn aside his heart. 4 And it cometh to pass, at the time of the old age of Solomon, his wives have turned aside his heart after other gods, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, like the heart of David his father. 5 And Solomon goeth after Ashtoreth god`dess' of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites; 6 and Solomon doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and hath not been fully after Jehovah, like David his father. 7 Then doth Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the hill that `is' on the front of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the sons of Ammon; 8 and so he hath done for all his strange women, who are perfuming and sacrificing to their gods.
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- Eccl 7:24-252 verses85%
24 Far off `is' that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?
25 I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.
- Eccl 1:13-186 verses77%
13 And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It `is' a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.
14 I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!
15 A crooked thing `one' is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
16 I -- I spake with my heart, saying, `I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.
17 And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;
18 for, in abundance of wisdom `is' abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'
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16 And I think to know this, Perverseness it `is' in mine eyes,
- Eccl 2:11-155 verses75%
11 and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!
12 And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what `is' the man who cometh after the king? that which `is' already -- they have done it!
13 And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.
14 The wise! -- his eyes `are' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;
15 and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is' vanity:
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13 This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.
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3 `Who `is' this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.
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17 then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.
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22 For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.
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12 I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out.
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9 And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.
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27 See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason
- Eccl 2:1-33 verses71%
1 I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it `is' vanity.
2 Of laughter I said, `Foolish!' and of mirth, `What `is' this it is doing?'
3 I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where `is' this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.
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3 Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.
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3 I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?
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13 Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?
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12 And the wisdom -- whence is it found? And where `is' this, the place of understanding?
- Job 17:10-112 verses71%
10 Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
11 My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!
- Eccl 2:19-202 verses71%
19 And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is' vanity.
20 And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.
- Eccl 7:15-162 verses71%
15 The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.
16 Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise, why art thou desolate?
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6 Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.
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7 And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,
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20 And the wisdom -- whence doth it come? And where `is' this, the place of understanding?
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24 The face of the intelligent `is' to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool -- at the end of the earth.
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3 I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.
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8 Lo, forward I go -- and He is not, And backward -- and I perceive him not.
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1 For `an object of' desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.
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14 Mine `is' counsel and substance, I `am' understanding, I have might.
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1 But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.
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17 And I have hated life, for sad to me `is' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.
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29 See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices.
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3 The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,
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3 And also, when he that is a fool Is walking in the way, his heart is lacking, And he hath said to every one, `He `is' a fool.'
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16 And I said, `Better `is' wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' --
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1 Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
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23 A God near `am' I -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And not a God afar off?