Verse 25

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.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Jeg vendte mitt hjerte til å søke innsikt, undersøke og finne visdom, samt å forstå galskapen i ondskap og meningsløs dårskap.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Jeg vendte mitt hjerte til å vite, utforske og søke visdom og årsaker, og til å vite det onde av dårskap, selv dårens dårskap.

• Norsk King James

  Jeg la mitt hjerte i å forstå, og søkte visdom og årsaken til ting; jeg ønsket å forstå ondskapen i galskap og også dumhet.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg vendte meg, jeg og mitt hjerte, for å forstå, utforske og søke visdommen og meningen, og for å forstå dårskapens ugudelighet og dumskapen av galskap.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Jeg vendte meg selv og mitt hjerte til å forstå, utforske, og søke visdom og grunner, og å forstå dårskapens ondskap og tåpelighetens galskap.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Jeg vendte mitt hjerte for å vite, og undersøke, og søke ut visdommen og forklaringen, og for å kjenne dårskapens ondskap, til og med dårskapens galskap.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Jeg rettet mitt hjerte mot å forstå, etterforske og søke etter visdom og tingenes mening, og for å forstå dårskapens ondskap – både tåpelighet og galskap.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Jeg vendte mitt hjerte for å vite, og undersøke, og søke ut visdommen og forklaringen, og for å kjenne dårskapens ondskap, til og med dårskapens galskap.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Jeg vendte meg og mitt hjerte til å forstå, utforske og søke visdom og meningen med alt, å forstå det onde som er egenrådighet og dårskap som er galskap.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I turned my mind to understand, to investigate, and to search out wisdom and the meaning of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Jeg vendte meg og mitt hjerte til å kjenne, søke og undersøke visdom og fornuft, og til å kjenne til dårskapens ondskap og tåpelighetenes vanvidd.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg vendte mig omkring, (jeg) og mit Hjerte, at forstaae og at opsøge og at lede efter Viisdom og Fornuftighed, og at forstaae Daarligheds Ugudelighed og Galenskabers Daarlighed.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Jeg har anvendt mitt hjerte for å kjenne, lete og søke visdom og grunnen til ting, og for å kjenne tåpelighetens ugudelighet, ja, dårskapens galskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Jeg vendte meg om, og mitt hjerte søkte å vite og undersøke, og å søke visdom og meningen med ting, og å erkjenne at ugudelighet er dårskap, og at dårskap er galskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Jeg vendte meg og mitt hjerte til å kjenne og søke og finne visdom og fornuft, og kjenne dårskapens dårskap og dårskapens galskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Jeg snudde meg, og mitt hjerte var viet til å kjenne, utforske og søke visdom og forklaring, og til å vite at ugudelighet er dårskap, og dårskap er galskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Jeg vendte mitt sinn mot kunnskap og leting etter visdom og årsaken til ting, og til å oppdage at synd er dårskap, og at å være en dåre er å være uten sans.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  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.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  (7:27) I haue compassed about, both I and mine heart to knowe and to enquire and to search wisedome, and reason, and to knowe the wickednesse of follie, and the foolishnesse of madnesse,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I applied my minde also vnto knowledge, and to seeke and searche out science, wysdome, and vnderstanding, to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly, and the errour of doting fooles.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason [of things], and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness [and] madness:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  True Righteousness and Wisdom Are Virtually Nonexistent I tried to understand, examine, and comprehend the role of wisdom in the scheme of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the insanity of folly.

Referenced Verses

• 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.