Ecclesiastes 7:23-25

Common English Bible

Life is complicated

²³ I tested all of this by wisdom. I thought, I will be wise, but it eluded me.

²⁴ All that happens is elusive and utterly unfathomable. Who can grasp it? ²⁵ I turned my mind to know, to investigate, and to seek wisdom, along with an account of things, to know that wickedness is foolishness and folly is madness.