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Ecclesiastes 7:25 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 7 · verse 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:Ecclesiastes 7:25 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 7:25 in context
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:
26And 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 her.
27Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- foolishnessçiklûwthsillinessH5531 →
- wickednessreshaʻa wrongH7562 →
- appliedçâbabto revolve, surround, or borderH5437 →
- searchtûwrto meander about, especially fortrade or reconnoitringH8446 →
- wisdomchokmâhwisdomH2451 →
- reasoncheshbôwnproperly, contrivanceH2808 →
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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