Ecclesiastes 7:25 - Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ so much more than it was before. Wisdom is very profound, so who shall reveal her?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ I turned about [penitent] and my heart was set to know and to search out and to seek [true] wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness [and what had led me into such wickedness and madness].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

Common English Bible

²⁵ I turned my mind to know, to investigate, and to seek wisdom, along with an account of things, to know that wickedness is foolishness and folly is madness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?

English Standard Version 2016

²⁵ I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.

Ecclesiastes 7:25 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 34:7

behold, his sons arrived from the field. And hearing what had happened, they were very angry, because he had done a filthy thing in Israel and, in violating a daughter of Jacob, had perpetrated an unlawful act.

2 Samuel 13:12

She answered him: "Do not do so, my brother! Do not force me. For no such thing must be done in Israel. Do not choose to do this senseless act.

Proverbs 17:12

It is more expedient to meet a bear robbed of her young, than the foolish trusting in his own folly.

Proverbs 26:11

Like a dog that returns to his vomit, so also is the imprudent who repeats his foolishness.

Ecclesiastes 10:13

At the beginning of his words is foolishness, and at the end of his talk is a most grievous error.

Ecclesiastes 2:12

I continued on, so as to contemplate wisdom, as well as error and foolishness. "What is man," I said, "that he would be able to follow his Maker, the King?"

Ecclesiastes 2:15

And I said in my heart: "If the death of both the foolish and myself will be one, how does it benefit me, if I have given myself more thoroughly to the work of wisdom?" And as I was speaking within my own mind, I perceived that this, too, is emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 2:20

Therefore, I ceased, and my heart renounced further laboring under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

And I have discovered a woman more bitter than death: she who is like the snare of a hunter, and whose heart is like a net, and whose hands are like chains. Whoever pleases God shall flee from her. But whoever is a sinner shall be seized by her.

Joshua 7:13

Rise up. Sanctify the people. And you shall say to them: 'Be sanctified tomorrow. For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: That which is anathema is in your midst, O Israel! You are not able to stand before your enemies, until he who has been contaminated by this wickedness is taken away from you.'