Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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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Bible References
I gave
Ecclesiastes 1:13
And I gave my heart to seek and to search out in wisdom concerning all which was done under the heavens: this evil business God gave to the sons of man to be occupied in it
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I examined in my heart to draw my flesh with wine, and my heart led in wisdom; and to lay hold upon folly till that I shall see what this good to the sons of man which they will do under the heavens the number of the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 7:23
All this I proved by wisdom: I said I will be wise, and it was removed far off from me.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Try all things; hold the good.
I perceived
Ecclesiastes 2:10
And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them, and I withheld not my heart from all gladness; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor: and this was my portion from all my labor.
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
I saw all the works they did under the sun; and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit
Ecclesiastes 6:11
For there is many words increasing vanity, what shall remain to man?