Ecclesiastes 2:3
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3 I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, until I might see what was good for mortals to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
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Ecclesiastes 2:12
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Wisdom and Joy Given to One Who Pleases God
12 So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly, for what can the king’s successor do? Only what has already been done.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 7:23
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23 All this I have tested by wisdom; I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 7:25
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25 I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.(A)
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