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 gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this severe burden has God given to the sons of man to be afflicted with.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

The reason

Behold, this have I found, says the preacher, adding one thing to another, to find out the reason:

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

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

And through covetousness shall they with false words exploit you: whose judgment of old now lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Know

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto 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 wicked madness.

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

Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow: for thus says the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of you, O Israel: you can not stand before your enemies, until you take away the accursed thing from among you.

And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not you this folly.

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

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.

General references

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