Ecclesiastes 7:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

I applied mine heart

Ecclesiastes 1:13

Ecclesiastes 2:1

The reason

Know

Proverbs 26:11

General references

Job 28:12

Bible References

I applied mine heart

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.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. And, behold, this also was vanity.

The reason

Behold, I have found this, says the Preacher, [laying] one thing to another, to find out the account,

And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.

Thou are righteous, O LORD, when I contend with thee. Yet I would reason the case with thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those at ease who deal very treacherously?

And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.

Knowing this first, that there will come at the end of the days, scoffers, proceeding according to their own desires,

Know

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel in laying with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.

Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow. For thus says LORD, the God of Israel, There is what has been set apart in the midst of thee, O Israel. Thou cannot stand before thine enemies until ye take aw

And she answered him, No, my brother, do not force me, for no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Do not do thou this folly.

Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool in his folly.

As a dog who returns to his vomit, [is] a fool who repeats his folly.

General references

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