Ecclesiastes 1:16
I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten for me great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yea, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
15That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:12behold, I have done according to thy word. Lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there has been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like thee.
1 Kings 5:9My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. And I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that thou shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and thou shall receive them. And thou shall
1 Kings 10:23So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
2 Chronicles 1:10Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people. For who can judge this thy people, that is so great?
2 Chronicles 9:22So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
Psalms 77:6I call to remembrance my song in the night. I commune with my own heart, and my spirit makes diligent search.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 1:13-18
Vanity of Human Wisdom. 12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. 16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am… Read the whole commentary →