Ecclesiastes 7:23
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
KJV
scit enim conscientia tua quia et tu crebro maledixisti aliis.
Vulgate
ὅτι πλειστάκις πονηρεύσεταί σε καὶ καθόδους πολλὰς κακώσει καρδία σου, ὅτι ὡς καί γε σὺ κατηράσω ἑτέρους.
LXX
All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
ASV
כָּל זֹ֖ה נִסִּ֣יתִי בַֽ/חָכְמָ֑ה אָמַ֣רְתִּי אֶחְכָּ֔מָה וְ/הִ֖יא רְחוֹקָ֥ה מִמֶּֽ/נִּי
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
ה֖וּא
hv'
pronoun · 1878×
זֹ֣ה
zh
pronoun · 12×
חָכְמָ֑ה
chkmh
noun · 148×
יֶחְכַּם
ychkm
verb · 28×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
נַסּ֥וֹת
nsvt
verb · 36×
רָח֑וֹק
rchvq
adjective · 84×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:20 — Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
- Eccl 7:28 — Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
- Eccl 8:17 — Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man
- Gen 3:5 — For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
- Job 28:12 — But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
- Job 28:20 — Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
- Rom 1:22 — Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,