Ecclesiastes 1:16 - Y'all Version Bible

¹⁶ I said to myself, “Look, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ I entered into counsel with my own mind, saying, Behold, I have acquired great [human] wisdom, yes, more than all who have been over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has had great experience of [moral] wisdom and [scientific] knowledge.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ I said to myself, Look here, I have grown much wiser than any who ruled over Jerusalem before me. My mind has absorbed great wisdom and knowledge.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ I have spoken in my heart, saying: "Behold, I have achieved greatness, and I have surpassed all the wise who were before me in Jerusalem." And my mind has contemplated many things wisely, and I have learned.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ I have spoken in my heart, saying: Behold I am become great, and have gone beyond all in wisdom, that were before me in Jerusalem: and my mind hath contemplated many things wisely, and I have learned.

Ecclesiastes 1:16 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 10:7

However, I didn’t believe the words until I came and saw it with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.

1 Kings 4:30

Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 5:9

My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”

2 Kings 5:20

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, by not receiving from his hands what he brought. As YHWH lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

2 Chronicles 2:12

Huram continued, “Blessed be YHWH, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who would build a house for YHWH and a house for his kingdom.

Psalm 4:4

Y’all must tremble and not sin. Y’all must search your* heart on your* bed and be silent. Selah.

Psalm 77:6

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure.” But this also was emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 2:9

So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

Ecclesiastes 3:17

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

Jeremiah 22:14

who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself, with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.

Daniel 4:30

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, who by practicing habits of the mind are able to discern between excellence and worthlessness.