Ecclesiastes 7:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom  and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:13

The beginning of the words from his mouth is folly, but the end of his speaking is evil madness;

Ecclesiastes 7:27

‘Look,’ says the Teacher, ‘I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation,

Ecclesiastes 2:20

So I began to give myself over  to despair concerning all my work that I had laboured at under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

So I said to myself, ‘What happens to the fool will also happen to me. Why then have I been overly wise? ’  And I said to myself that this is also futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:12

Then I turned to consider wisdom,  madness, and folly, for what will the king’s successor  be like? He  will do what has already been done.

Proverbs 26:11

As a dog returns to its vomit, so also a fool repeats his foolishness.

Proverbs 17:12

Better for a person to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his foolishness.

2 Samuel 13:12

‘Don’t, my brother! ’ she cried. ‘Don’t disgrace  me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel.  Don’t commit this outrage!

Joshua 7:13

‘Go and consecrate the people. Tell them to consecrate themselves for tomorrow,  for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: There are things that are set apart among you, Israel. You will not be able to stand against your enemies until you remove what is set apart.

Genesis 34:7

Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter,  and such a thing should not be done.