Ecclesiastes 7:23 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ All this have I tried and proved by wisdom. I said, I will be wise [independently of God]–but it was far from me.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

Common English Bible

²³ I tested all of this by wisdom. I thought, I will be wise, but it eluded me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ For your conscience knows that you, too, have repeatedly spoken evil of others.

English Standard Version 2016

²³ All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.

Ecclesiastes 7:23 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:5

For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit,

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 7:22

But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it.

Romans 1:22

For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?