Ecclesiastes 7:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

All this I have tested by wisdom; I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

All this have I tried and proved by wisdom. I said, I will be wise [independently of God]–but it was far from me.

American Standard Version (1901)

All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

Common English Bible

I tested all of this by wisdom. I thought, I will be wise, but it eluded me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For your conscience knows that you, too, have repeatedly spoken evil of others.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others.

Ecclesiastes 7:23 Cross References

Genesis 3:5

for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover, he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 7:22

your heart knows that many times you have yourself cursed others.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I saw all the work of God, that no one can find out what is happening under the sun. However much they may toil in seeking, they will not find it out; even though those who are wise claim to know, they cannot find it out.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?