Ecclesiastes 7:23

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

All this I proved by wisdom: I said I will be wise, and it was removed far off from me.

Cross References

Genesis 3:5

For God is knowing in the day of your eating from it, and your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I will give my heart to know wisdom, and the knowledge of praise and understanding: I knew this also it is the striving of the spirit

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He made everything beautiful in his time: also he gave hidden time in their heart, so that man shall not find the work which God did from the beginning and even to the end.

Ecclesiastes 7:22

For also many times thy heart knew that thou didst also curse others.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

And I saw all the work of God, that no man shall be able to find out the work that was done under the sun in whatsoever a man shall labor to seek out, and he shall not find: and also if the wise one shall say to know, he shall not be able to find.

Romans 1:22

Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools,

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?