Ecclesiastes 7:23

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I told myself that I would be clever and try to understand all of this, but it was too much for me.

Cross References

Genesis 3:5

“God understands what will happen on the day you eat fruit from that tree. You will see what you have done, and you will know the difference between right and wrong, just as God does.”

Ecclesiastes 1:17

Then I decided to find out all I could about wisdom and foolishness. Soon I realized that this too was as senseless as chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God makes everything happen at the right time. Yet none of us can ever fully understand all he has done, and he puts questions in our minds about the past and the future.

Ecclesiastes 7:22

Haven't you cursed many others?

Ecclesiastes 8:17

I saw everything God does, and I realized that no one can really understand what happens. We may be very wise, but no matter how much we try or how much we claim to know, we cannot understand it all.

Romans 1:22

They claim to be wise, but they are fools.

1 Corinthians 1:20

What happened to those wise people? What happened to those experts in the Scriptures? What happened to the ones who think they have all the answers? Didn't God show that the wisdom of this world is foolish?