Ecclesiastes 7:23

I have tested all this with wisdom. I said, “I will be wise [independently of God],” but true wisdom was far from me.

Genesis 3:5

For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened [that is, you will have greater awareness], and you will be like God, knowing [the difference between] good and evil.”

God said to him, “Because you have asked this and have not asked for yourself a long life nor for wealth, nor for the lives of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to recognize justice,

1 Kings 11:1-8

Now king Solomon [defiantly] loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise man (philosopher)? Where is the scribe (scholar)? Where is the debater (logician, orator) of this age? Has God not exposed the foolishness of this world’s wisdom?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ecclesiastes 7:23

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

I said

1 Corinthians 1:20

General references

Job 28:12

Bible References

I said

For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened [that is, you will have greater awareness], and you will be like God, knowing [the difference between] good and evil.”

Now king Solomon [defiantly] loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Where is the wise man (philosopher)? Where is the scribe (scholar)? Where is the debater (logician, orator) of this age? Has God not exposed the foolishness of this world’s wisdom?

General references

“But where can wisdom be found?
And where is the place of understanding?

Ecclesiastes 7:23