Ecclesiastes 1:16
I spoke in my heart, saying, Behold, I am increased, and have acquired wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem: also I applied my heart to know wisdom and knowledge.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
15That which is crooked can’t be made straight: and deficiency can’t be numbered.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:12behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have given you an understanding and wise heart: there has not been any one like you before you, and after you there shall not arise one like you.
1 Kings 5:9my servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: I will form them into rafts, and bring them to the place which you shall send to me about; and I will + 5:9 Lit. shake them off. land them there, and you shall take them up: and you shall do my will, in giving bread to my household.
1 Kings 10:23And Solomon increased beyond all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom.
2 Chronicles 1:10Now give me wisdom and understanding, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who shall judge this your great people?
2 Chronicles 9:22And Solomon exceeded all other kings both in riches and wisdom.
Psalms 77:6that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children. 1
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 →