17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
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I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. …
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. …
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-18)Solomon, having asserted in general that all is vanity , and having given some general proofs of it, now takes the most effectual method to evince the truth of it, 1. By his own experience; he tried them all, and found them vanity. 2. By an induction of particulars; and here he begins with that which bids fairest of all to be the happiness of a reasonable creature, and that is knowledge and learni…
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