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Ecclesiastes 7:23 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 7 · verse 23
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.Ecclesiastes 7:23 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 7:23 in context
21Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
22For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
23All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
24That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
25I 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:
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Solomon had hitherto been proving the vanity of the world and its utter insufficiency to make men happy; now here he comes to show the vileness of sin, and its certain tendency to make men miserable; and this, as the former, he proves from his own experience, and it was a dear-bought experience.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 23-29