Ecclesiastes 7:25

Modern English Version

And I turned my heart to know and seek and search out wisdom in the scheme of things and to know the wickedness of folly, and that foolishness is madness.

Cross References

Genesis 34:7

The sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it, and the men were grieved and were very disturbed, because Shechem had disgraced Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that should not be done.

2 Samuel 13:12

She pled with him, “No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not to be done in Israel. Do not carry out this awful thing.

Proverbs 17:12

Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 26:11

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.

Ecclesiastes 10:13

The beginning of the words from his mouth are folly; so the end of his words are evil madness.

Ecclesiastes 2:12

Then I turned to observe wisdom, the folly of ideas, and foolish behavior. For what else can a person do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then I said in my heart, “The same event that befalls the fool will also befall me. So to what advantage is my wisdom?” Then I said to myself, “This also is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 2:20

So I turned to give my heart up to despair concerning all the toil of my labors under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

“This is what I have observed,” says Qoheleth, “while adding one thing to another to understand the scheme of things,

Joshua 7:13

“Get up! Consecrate the people and say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: “Things dedicated for destruction are in your midst, O Israel. You are not able to stand before your enemies until you remove the things dedicated for destruction from your midst.”