Ecclesiastes 1:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I said to myself, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”

Cross References

1 Kings 10:7

but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes saw it. Not even half had been told me; your wisdom and prosperity far surpass the report that I had heard.

1 Kings 4:30

so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 5:9

My servants shall bring it down to the sea from the Lebanon; I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you indicate. I will have them broken up there for you to take away. And you shall meet my needs by providing food for my household.”

2 Kings 5:20

Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, “My master has let that Aramean Naaman off too lightly by not accepting from him what he offered. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”

2 Chronicles 2:12

Huram also said, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son endowed with discretion and understanding who will build a temple for the Lord and a royal palace for himself.

Psalm 4:4

When you are disturbed, do not sin; ponder it on your beds, and be silent. Selah

Psalm 77:6

I commune with my heart in the night; I meditate and search my spirit:

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself, “Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But again, this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then I said to myself, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also; why then have I been so very wise?” And I said to myself that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:9

So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me.

Ecclesiastes 3:17

I said to myself, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter and for every work.”

Jeremiah 22:14

who says, “I will build myself a spacious house with large upper rooms,” and who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion.

Daniel 4:30

and the king said, “Is this not magnificent Babylon, which I have built as a royal capital by my mighty power and for my glorious majesty?”

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.