Ecclesiastes 7:26
I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
25Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?
Cross References
Genesis 39:9But he, in no wise consenting to that wicked act, said to her: Behold, my master hath delivered all things to me, and knoweth not what he hath in his own house:
Judges 16:19But she made him sleep upon her knees, and lay his head in her bosom. And she called a barber, and shaved his seven locks, and began to drive him away, and thrust him from her: for immediately his strength departed from him.
Proverbs 2:18And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.
Proverbs 7:21She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:24-29
The Evil of Sin. 23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. 24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? 25 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: 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by… Read the whole commentary →