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Ecclesiastes 7:25

World English Bible

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

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Ecclesiastes 7:25 in other translations

I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

Ecclesiastes 7:25 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 7:25 in context

  1. 23All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.
  2. 24That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
  3. 25I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
  4. 26I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
  5. 27“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find out the scheme