Ecclesiastes 1:17
New King James Version
17 (A)And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind.
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Ecclesiastes 2:3
New King James Version
3 (A)I searched in my heart how [a]to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was (B)good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.
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- Ecclesiastes 2:3 Lit. to draw my flesh
1 Thessalonians 5:21
New King James Version
21 (A)Test all things; (B)hold fast what is good.
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Ecclesiastes 2:10-12
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10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them.
I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure,
For my heart rejoiced in all my labor;
And (A)this was my [a]reward from all my labor.
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done
And on the labor in which I had toiled;
And indeed all was (B)vanity and grasping for the wind.
There was no profit under the sun.
The End of the Wise and the Fool
12 Then I turned myself to consider wisdom (C)and madness and folly;
For what can the man do who succeeds the king?—
Only what he has already (D)done.
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- Ecclesiastes 2:10 Lit. portion
Ecclesiastes 7:23-25
New King James Version
23 All this I have [a]proved by wisdom.
(A)I said, “I will be wise”;
But it was far from me.
24 (B)As for that which is far off and (C)exceedingly deep,
Who can find it out?
25 (D)I applied my heart to know,
To search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things,
To know the wickedness of folly,
Even of foolishness and madness.
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- Ecclesiastes 7:23 tested
Ecclesiastes 1:13-14
New King James Version
13 And I set my heart to seek and (A)search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; (B)this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be [a]exercised. 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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- Ecclesiastes 1:13 Or afflicted
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