I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness. Cross References Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them! Ecclesiastes 1:15 What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted. Ecclesiastes 1:17 So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind. Ecclesiastes 2:3 I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly--my mind still guiding me with wisdom--until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives. Ecclesiastes 10:13 The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness. Treasury of Scripture I applied my 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: I applied mine heart Ecclesiastes 1:13-17 Ecclesiastes 2:1-3,12,20 the reason Ecclesiastes 7:27 Ecclesiastes 2:15 Ecclesiastes 3:16,17 know Ecclesiastes 9:3 Ecclesiastes 10:13 Genesis 34:7 |