Thematic Bible: The search for
Thematic Bible
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And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It is a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.
When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),
Taw. My loud cry cometh near before Thee, O Jehovah; According to Thy word cause me to understand.
If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
And the wisdom -- whence doth it come? And where is this, the place of understanding?
And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what is the man who cometh after the king? that which is already -- they have done it!
I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.