Ecclesiastes 7:23
All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, “I am wise,” and it [is] far from me.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
In Context
22For many times also has your heart known that you yourself have also reviled others.
24Far off [is] that which has been, and deep, deep, who finds it?
Cross References
1 Kings 3:11and God says to him, “Because that you have asked for this thing, and have not asked for many days for yourself, nor asked for riches for yourself, nor asked for the life of your enemies, and have asked for discernment for yourself to understand judgment,
Ecclesiastes 1:17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this [is] distress of spirit;
1 Corinthians 1:20where [is] the wise? Where the scribe? Where a disputer of this age? Did God not make foolish the wisdom of this world?
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:12-23
The Advantages of Wisdom. 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. 13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.… Read the whole commentary →