Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Wisdom » True wisdom, general references to » The search for
applied my mind to seek out and search for the knowledge of all things that are done under heaven. Such travail and labor hath God given to the children of men, to exercise themselves therein.
And so I applied my mind to learn wisdom, and to know the travail that is in the world; and that of such a fashion that I suffered not my eyes to sleep neither day nor night.
{Tav} Let my complaint come before thee, O LORD; give me understanding, according unto thy word.
If thou seekest after her as after money, and diggest for her as for treasures;
Then turned I me to consider wisdom, error and foolishness: for what is he among men, that might be compared to me the king in such work?
I applied my mind also to knowledge, and to seek out science, wisdom and understanding: to know the foolishness of the ungodly, and the error of doting fools.