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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ecc 1:17 — And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
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Ecc 1:13 |
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. |
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Ecc 2:3 |
I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life. |
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Ecc 2:12 |
And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done. |
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Ecc 7:23 |
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it [was] far from me. |
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Ecc 7:24 |
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? |
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Ecc 7:25 |
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: |
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1Th 5:21 |
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. |
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Ecc 2:10 |
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. |
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Ecc 2:11 |
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Ecclesiastes 1:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Ecc/1/17.html>.
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