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Eccl. 7:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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ζI applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

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I and my heart compassed.

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I applied mine heart.

Heb. I and my heart compassed.

Eccl. 1:13‑17• ¹³And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
¹⁴I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
¹⁵That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
¹⁶I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
¹⁷And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. (Eccl. 1:13‑17)

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Eccl. 2:1‑3,12,20• ¹I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
²I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
³I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
¹²And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
²⁰Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun. (Eccl. 2:1‑3,12,20)

the reason.

Eccl. 7:27• ²⁷Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: (Eccl. 7:27)

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Eccl. 7• (Eccl. 7)

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Eccl. 2:15• ¹⁵Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity. (Eccl. 2:15)

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Eccl. 3:16‑17• ¹⁶And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
¹⁷I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. (Eccl. 3:16‑17)

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Eccl. 9:1‑2• ¹For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
²All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. (Eccl. 9:1‑2)

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Jer. 12:1‑2• ¹Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
²Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins. (Jer. 12:1‑2)

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2 Peter 2:3‑9• ³And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
⁴For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
⁵And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
⁶And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
⁷And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
⁸(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
⁹The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: (2 Peter 2:3‑9)

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2 Peter 3:3‑9• ³Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
⁴And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
⁵For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
⁶Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
⁷But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
⁸But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
⁹The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:3‑9)

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Eccl. 9:3• ³This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. (Eccl. 9:3)

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Eccl. 10:13• ¹³The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. (Eccl. 10:13)

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Gen. 34:7• ⁷And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. (Gen. 34:7)

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Josh. 7:13• ¹³Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you. (Josh. 7:13)

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2 Sam. 13:12• ¹²And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. (2 Sam. 13:12)

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Prov. 17:12• ¹²Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. (Prov. 17:12)

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Prov. 26:11• ¹¹As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. (Prov. 26:11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I turned, I and my heart, to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and reasong, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madnessh;

JND Translation Notes

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Or "thought." translated "device" in ch. 9.10.

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Or "the wickedness of folly, and the foolishness of madness."