Ecclesiastes 7:23

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Genesis 3:5

For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made every thing beautiful in his time: also he has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 7:22

For oftentimes also your own heart knows that you yourself likewise have cursed others.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yes farther; 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? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?