Ecclesiastes 7:25

25 I applied mine heart to know and to search and to seek out wisdom and the reason for things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.

Ecclesiastes 7:25 In-Context

23 All this have I tested by wisdom: I said, "I will be wise," but it was far from me.
24 That which is far off and exceedingly deep" who can find it out?
25 I applied mine heart to know and to search and to seek out wisdom and the reason for 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 whose hands are as bonds. Whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
27 "Behold, this have I found," saith the Preacher, "counting one by one to find out the account,
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