Ecclesiastes 7:23

Tree of Life Version

All this I have tested with wisdom and I said, “I determined to be wise”—but it was far from me.

Cross References

Genesis 3:5

For God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Ecclesiastes 1:17

So I applied my heart to know wisdom as well as to know madness and folly. I learned that this too was pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Moreover, He has set eternity in their heart—yet without the possibility that humankind can ever discover the work that God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 7:22

for your heart knows that many times you too have mocked others.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I saw all the work of God. No one can comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite all human efforts to seek it out, no one comprehends. Even if a wise person claims to know, he cannot really comprehend.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise one? Where is the Torah scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of the world?