Ecclesiastes 7:23 All this I tested by wisdom and I said, "I am determined to be wise"--but this was beyond me.

Ecclesiastes 7:23

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New International Version (©1984)
All this I tested by wisdom and I said, "I am determined to be wise"--but this was beyond me.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I have always tried my best to let wisdom guide my thoughts and actions. I said to myself, "I am determined to be wise." But it didn't work.

English Standard Version (©2001)
All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
I tested all this with wisdom, and I said, "I will be wise," but it was far from me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I used wisdom to test all of this. I said, "I want to be wise, but it is out of my reach."

King James Bible
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

American King James Version
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

American Standard Version
All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

Bible in Basic English
All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me,

Darby Bible Translation
All this have I tried by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

English Revised Version
All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

Webster's Bible Translation
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

World English Bible
All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" but it was far from me.

Young's Literal Translation
All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, 'I am wise,' and it is far from me.

Geneva Study Bible

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

7:23 Proved - I have found to be true, by the help of that singular wisdom which God had given me. I said - I determined that I would attain perfection of wisdom. But - I found myself greatly disappointed.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

23. All this-resuming the "all" in Ec 7:15; Ec 7:15-22 is therefore the fruit of his dearly bought experience in the days of his "vanity."

I will be wise-I tried to "be wise," independently of God. But true wisdom was then "far from him," in spite of his human wisdom, which he retained by God's gift. So "over wise" (Ec 7:16).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:23-29 Solomon, in his search into the nature and reason of things, had been miserably deluded. But he here speaks with godly sorrow. He alone who constantly aims to please God, can expect to escape; the careless sinner probably will fall to rise no more. He now discovered more than ever the evil of the great sin of which he had been guilty, the loving many strange women,

Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Ecclesiastes 8:17 and I saw every work of God, I concluded that man cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should seek laboriously, he will not discover; and though the wise man should say, "I know," he cannot discover. (NASB ©1995)

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

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