Ecclesiastes 1:16

New American Bible - revised edition

Though I said to myself, “See, I have greatly increased my wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem, and my mind has broad experience of wisdom and knowledge,”

Cross References

1 Kings 10:7

“I did not believe the report until I came and saw with my own eyes that not even the half had been told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report I heard.

1 Kings 5:9

Moreover, God gave Solomon wisdom, exceptional understanding, and knowledge, as vast as the sand on the seashore.

2 Kings 5:20

when Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, thought to himself: “My master was too easy on this Aramean Naaman, not accepting what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something out of him.”

2 Chronicles 2:12

I am now sending you a craftsman of great skill, Huram-abi,

Psalm 4:4

Know that the Lord works wonders for his faithful one; the Lord hears when I call out to him.

Psalm 77:6

I consider the days of old; the years long past

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, “Come, now, let me try you with pleasure and the enjoyment of good things.” See, this too was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

So I said in my heart, if the fool’s lot is to befall me also, why should I be wise? Where is the profit? And in my heart I decided that this too is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:9

I accumulated much more than all others before me in Jerusalem; my wisdom, too, stayed with me.

Ecclesiastes 3:17

I said in my heart, both the just and the wicked God will judge, since a time is set for every affair and for every work.

Jeremiah 22:14

Who says, “I will build myself a spacious house, with airy rooms,” Who cuts out windows for it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.

Daniel 4:30

At once this was fulfilled. Nebuchadnezzar was cast out from human society, he ate grass like an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle, and his nails like the claws of a bird.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties are trained by practice to discern good and evil.