Ecclesiastes 7:25

New King James Version

I applied my heart to know, To search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things, To know the wickedness of folly, Even of foolishness and madness.

Cross References

Genesis 34:7

And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved and very angry, because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing which ought not to be done.

2 Samuel 13:12

But she answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me, for no such thing should be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!

Proverbs 17:12

Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, Rather than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 26:11

As a dog returns to his own vomit, So a fool repeats his folly.

Ecclesiastes 10:13

The words of his mouth begin with foolishness, And the end of his talk is raving madness.

Ecclesiastes 2:12

Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly; For what can the man do who succeeds the king?— Only what he has already done.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

So I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, It also happens to me, And why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart, “This also is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 2:20

Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

Here is what I have found,” says the Preacher, “Adding one thing to the other to find out the reason,

Joshua 7:13

Get up, sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because thus says the Lord God of Israel: “There is an accursed thing in your midst, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the accursed thing from among you.”