Ecclesiastes 1:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 1:17 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 2:3
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.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Ecclesiastes 7:23-25
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. …
Ecclesiastes 1:13-14
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. …
Ecclesiastes 2:10-12
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. …

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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 learnin…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. wisdom ... madness--that is, their effects, the works of human wisdom and folly respectively. “Madness,” literally, “vaunting extravagance”; Ec 2:12; 7:25, &c., support English Version rather than Dathe, “splendid matters.” “Folly” is read by English Version with some manuscripts, instead of the present Hebrew text, “prudence.” If Hebrew be retained, understand “prudence,” falsely so called (1…