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Ecclesiastes 7:23
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21 Also do not take to heart everything people say,
Lest you hear your servant cursing you.
22 For many times, also, your own heart has known
That even you have cursed others.
23 All this I have1 proved by wisdom.
aI said, “I will be wise”;
But it was far from me. 
24 aAs for that which is far off and bexceedingly deep,
Who can find it out? 
25 aI 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. 
26 aAnd I find more bitter than death
The woman whose heart is snares and nets,
Whose hands are fetters.
1He who pleases God shall escape from her,
But the sinner shall be trapped by her. 
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Ecclesiastes 7:23

I will be - Or, I am. There was a time when Solomon thought himself wise enough to comprehend the work of God, and therefore needed for himself the self-humbling conviction declared in this verse.

It - i. e. Wisdom. Compare Ecclesiastes 8:17.


 
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