Ecclesiastes 7:23

Bible in Basic English 1965

All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

Cross References

Genesis 3:5

For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

Ecclesiastes 7:22

Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

Romans 1:22

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?