Ecclesiastes 7:25

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness which is madness.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:13

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is wicked madness.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, adding one thing to another to find the sum,

Ecclesiastes 2:20

So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun,

Ecclesiastes 2:15

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

Ecclesiastes 2:12

So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what he has already done.

Proverbs 26:11

Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool that repeats his folly.

Proverbs 17:12

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

2 Samuel 13:12

She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me; for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this wanton folly.

Joshua 7:13

Up, sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the Lord, God of Israel, “There are devoted things in the midst of you, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies, until you take away the devoted things from among you.”

Genesis 34:7

The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard of it; and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.