Ecclesiastes 7:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

All this have I proved in 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 doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

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

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He hath made every thing beautiful in its time: also he hath set the world in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

Ecclesiastes 7:22

for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Romans 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?