Ecclesiastes 7:23 - Revised Standard Version CI

²³ 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

²³ All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ 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)

²³ All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

Common English Bible

²³ I tested all of this by wisdom. I thought, I will be wise, but it eluded me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ For your conscience knows that you, too, have repeatedly 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 striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he 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 man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out; even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?