Ecclesiastes 7:23

Modern English Version

All these matters I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but wisdom has eluded me.

Cross References

Genesis 3:5

For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know the folly of ideas, and to know foolish behavior. I know that this as well is like chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also put obscurity in their hearts so that people do not come to know the work that God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 7:22

Your heart knows that many times you yourself have spoken a curse against others.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I observed all the work of God, that one cannot understand what is happening under the sun. Though a person may toil in seeking, he will not understand it. Even if a wise man claims to know, he is not able to understand it.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of this world foolish?