Ecclesiastes 7:23-25

Jubilee Bible 2000

²³ ¶ All this I have proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

²⁴ That which has been is far off and that which is exceeding deep, who can find it out?

²⁵ 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 and the madness of error;