Ecclesiastes 1:17 - Tree of Life Version

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And I gave my mind to know [practical] wisdom and to discern [the character of] madness and folly [in which men seem to find satisfaction]; I perceived that this also is a searching after wind and a feeding on it. [I Thess. 5:21.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ But when I set my mind to understand wisdom, and also to understand madness and folly, I realized that this too was just wind chasing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And I have dedicated my heart, so that I may know prudence and doctrine, and also error and foolishness. Yet I recognize that, in these things also, there is hardship, and affliction of the spirit.

Ecclesiastes 1:17 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 73:16

But when I tried to make sense of this, it was troubling in my eyes—

Ecclesiastes 12:8

“Evanescent vapors,” says Kohelet. All is futility.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And so I hated life, because the work done under the sun was grievous to me. All is but vapor and chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I thought deeply about how to cheer my flesh with wine—letting my heart guide me with wisdom—and how to grasp folly, so that I could see what was worthwhile for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the destiny of humankind and the destiny of animals are one and the same. As one dies, so dies the other. Both have the same breath—a human has no advantage over an animal—both are fleeting.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I saw that all toil and all skill that is done come from man’s envy of his neighbor; this too is fleeting and striving after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful with tranquility than two handfuls of toil and striving after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better is what the eyes see than the pursuit of the soul’s desires. This too is fleeting and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to observe the activity that is done upon the earth (his eyes not seeing sleep either day or night),

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is a misery in everything done under the sun: that the same destiny awaits everyone. Moreover, the hearts of all humans are full of evil, and folly is in their hearts during their lives—after that they die.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

but test all things, hold fast to what is good,