Ecclesiastes 7:23

New American Bible - revised edition

All these things I probed in wisdom. I said, “I will acquire wisdom”; but it was far beyond me.

Cross References

Genesis 3:5

God knows well that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, who know good and evil.”

Ecclesiastes 1:17

yet when I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly, I learned that this also is a chase after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless into their hearts so they cannot find out, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.

Ecclesiastes 7:22

for your heart knows that you have many times cursed others.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

and I saw all the work of God: No mortal can find out the work that is done under the sun. However much mortals may toil in searching, no one finds it out; and even if the wise claim to know, they are unable to find it out.

Romans 1:22

While claiming to be wise, they became fools

1 Corinthians 1:20

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