(A)I searched in my heart how [a]to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was (B)good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:3 Lit. to draw my flesh

The End of the Wise and the Fool

12 Then I turned myself to consider wisdom (A)and madness and folly;
For what can the man do who succeeds the king?—
Only what he has already (B)done.

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23 All this I have [a]proved by wisdom.
(A)I said, “I will be wise”;
But it was far from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:23 tested

25 (A)I applied my heart to know,
To search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things,
To know the wickedness of folly,
Even of foolishness and madness.

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