Ecclesiastes 7:23

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

All this I have tested by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

Cross References

Genesis 3:5

for God knows that in the day you eat of it, even your eyes shall be opened, and you shall become like God, knowing good and evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness, and folly. I know that this also, it is striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has set eternity in their heart, without which man cannot find out the work that God makes from the beginning even to the end.

Ecclesiastes 7:22

For also your own heart knows that you yourself have also cursed others many times.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

Then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun; that for which a man labors to seek out, yet he shall not find it. And even if the wise ones speak of knowing, he shall not be able to find it.

Romans 1:22

Professing to be wise ones, they became foolish

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise one? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Did God not make the wisdom of this world to be foolish?