Ecclesiastes 1:17

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

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine (my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom), and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of th

Ecclesiastes 1:13-14

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven. It is a great tribulation that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Ecclesiastes 2:10-12

And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy. For my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 7:23-25

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

1 Thessalonians 5:21

but examine all things. Hold firm the good.

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

I perceived

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I gave

Ecclesiastes 1:13
And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven. It is a great tribulation that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine (my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom), and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of th
Ecclesiastes 7:23
All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
but examine all things. Hold firm the good.

I perceived

Ecclesiastes 2:10
And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy. For my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

General references

Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:11
Since there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?