Ecclesiastes 7:25 - Tree of Life Version

²⁵ So I turned my heart to understand, to search and seek out wisdom and an explanation of things and to know the stupidity of wickedness and madness of folly.

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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.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Ecclesiastes 7:25 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 34:7

Jacob’s sons had already come in from the field when they heard, and the men were deeply grieved and furious, because he had committed a vile deed in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, which ought never to be done.

2 Samuel 13:12

“No!” she said to him. “Don’t, my brother! Don’t rape me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Don’t do this disgraceful deed!

Proverbs 17:12

Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than to deal with a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 26:11

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

Ecclesiastes 10:13

The words from his mouth begin as folly and end as grievous madness—

Ecclesiastes 2:12

Then I turned to consider wisdom, madness and folly. For what more can the one who succeeds the king do than what he has already done?

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then said I in my heart: “I, even I, will have the same destiny as a fool. So why have I become so wise?” I said in my heart, “This too is meaningless.”

Ecclesiastes 2:20

So I turned my heart over to despair over all the things for which I had toiled under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

“Look,” said Kohelet, “I have discovered this while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things—

Joshua 7:13

Arise! Consecrate the people and say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for thus says Adonai, the God of Israel: Something under the ban is in the midst of you, Israel. You will not be able to stand up before your enemies until you remove whatever is under the ban from among you.