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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 applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: this grievous occupation hath God given to the children of men to weary themselves therewith.
¹⁴I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
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 have become great and have acquired wisdom more than all they that have been before me over Jerusalem; and my heart hath seen much of wisdom and knowledge.
¹⁷And I applied my heart to the knowledge of wisdom, and to the knowledge of madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after the wind. (Eccl. 1:13‑17)

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Eccl. 2:1‑3,12,20• ¹I said in my heart, Come now, I will try thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. But behold, this also is vanity.
²I said of laughter, Madness! and of mirth, What availeth it?
³I searched in my heart how to cherish my flesh with wine, while practising my heart with wisdom; and how to lay hold on folly, till I should see what was that good for the children of men which they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.
¹²And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what shall the man do that cometh after the king?--that which hath already been done.
²⁰Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun. (Eccl. 2:1‑3,12,20)

the reason.

Eccl. 7:27• ²⁷See this which I have found, saith the Preacher, searching one by one to find out the reason; (Eccl. 7:27)

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Eccl. 2:15• ¹⁵And I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool so will it happen even to me; and why was I then so 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, that in the place of judgment, wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there.
¹⁷I said in my heart, God will 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 laid to my heart and indeed to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.
²All things come alike to all: 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; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. (Eccl. 9:1‑2)

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Jer. 12:1‑2• ¹Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
²Thou hast planted them, they also have taken root: they advance, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins. (Jer. 12:1‑2)

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2 Peter 2:3‑9• ³And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.
⁴For if God spared not the angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness to be kept for judgment;
⁵and spared not the old world, but preserved Noe, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
⁶and having reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, setting them as an example to those that should afterwards live an ungodly life;
⁷and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of the godless,
⁸(for the righteous man through seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul day after day with their lawless works,)
⁹the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep the unjust to 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 at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,
⁴and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from the beginning of the creation.
⁵For this is hidden from them through their own wilfulness, that heavens were of old, and an earth, having its subsistence out of water and in water, by the word of God,
⁶through which waters the then world, deluged with water, perished.
⁷But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
⁸But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
⁹The Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, 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 that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, they have to go to the dead. (Eccl. 9:3)

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Eccl. 10:13• ¹³The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly; 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 from the fields when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought what was disgraceful 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• ¹³Rise up, hallow the people, and say, Hallow yourselves for to-morrow; for thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, Israel: thou shalt not be able to stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from your midst. (Josh. 7:13)

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2 Sam. 13:12• ¹²And she said to him, No, my brother, do not humble me; for no such thing is done in Israel: do not this infamy. (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 turneth back to its vomit, so a fool repeateth 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."