23 I tested all this with wisdom, and I said, “I will be wise,” (A)but it was far from me. 24 What has been is remote and (B)exceedingly [a]mysterious. (C)Who can discover it? 25 I [b](D)directed my [c]mind to know, to investigate and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the evil of folly and the foolishness of madness.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:24 Lit deep
  2. Ecclesiastes 7:25 Lit turned about
  3. Ecclesiastes 7:25 Lit heart