Ecclesiastes 1:16

Catholic Public Domain Version

I have spoken in my heart, saying: "Behold, I have achieved greatness, and I have surpassed all the wise who were before me in Jerusalem." And my mind has contemplated many things wisely, and I have learned.

Cross References

1 Kings 10:7

about your words and your wisdom. But I did not believe those who explained it to me, until I went myself and saw it with my own eyes. And I have discovered that the half of it has not been told to me: your wisdom and works are greater than the report that I have heard.

1 Kings 4:30

And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the East, and of the Egyptians.

1 Kings 5:9

My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. And I will arrange them together as rafts on the sea, as far as the place that you will indicate to me. And I will land them there, and you will take them. And you shall offer to me what is necessary to give food to my house."

2 Kings 5:20

And Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, said: "My lord has spared Naaman, this Syrian, by not receiving from him what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him, and take something from him."

2 Chronicles 2:12

And he added, saying: "Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who gave to king David a son who is wise, and learned, and intelligent as well as prudent, so that he may build a house to the Lord, and a palace for himself.

Psalm 4:4

And know this: the Lord has made wondrous his holy one. The Lord will heed me when I cry out to him.

Psalm 77:6

so that another generation might know them, and so that the sons, who will be born and who will grow up, shall describe them to their sons.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart: "I will go forth and overflow with delights, and I will enjoy good things." And I saw that this, too, is emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

And I said in my heart: "If the death of both the foolish and myself will be one, how does it benefit me, if I have given myself more thoroughly to the work of wisdom?" And as I was speaking within my own mind, I perceived that this, too, is emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 2:9

And I surpassed in opulence all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also persevered with me.

Ecclesiastes 3:17

And I said in my heart: "God will judge the just and the impious, and then the time for each matter shall be."

Jeremiah 22:14

And he says: 'I will build a broad house for myself, with spacious upper rooms.' He makes windows for himself, and he builds the roof out of cedar, and he paints it with red ocher.

Daniel 4:30

The same hour, the sentence was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven away from among men, and he ate hay like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair increased like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like those of birds.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for those who are mature, for those who, by practice, have sharpened their mind, so as to discern good from evil.