Ecclesiastes 7:25

A Conservative Version

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.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:13

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

Behold, I have found this, says the Preacher, [laying] one thing to another, to find out the account,

Ecclesiastes 2:20

Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it will happen even to me, and why then was I more wise? Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:12

And I turned myself to behold wisdom and madness and folly. For what [can] the man [do] who comes after the king? [Even] that which has been done long ago.

Proverbs 26:11

As a dog who returns to his vomit, [is] a fool who repeats his folly.

Proverbs 17:12

Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool in his folly.

2 Samuel 13:12

And she answered him, No, my brother, do not force me, for no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Do not do thou this folly.

Joshua 7:13

Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow. For thus says LORD, the God of Israel, There is what has been set apart in the midst of thee, O Israel. Thou cannot stand before thine enemies until ye take aw

Genesis 34:7

And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel in laying with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.