Ecclesiastes 7:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

Ecclesiastes 7:23 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
Genesis 3:5
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
1 Kings 11:1-8
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; …
1 Kings 3:11-12
And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 23-29)

Solomon had hitherto been proving the vanity of the world and its utter insufficiency to make men happy; now here he comes to show the vileness of sin, and its certain tendency to make men miserable; and this, as the former, he proves from his own experience, and it was a dear-bought experience. He is here, more than any where in all this book, putting on the habit of a penitent. He reviews what h…

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

(vv. 23)

23. All this--resuming the “all” in Ec 7:15; Ec 7:15-22 is therefore the fruit of his dearly bought experience in the days of his “vanity.” I will be wise--I tried to “be wise,” independently of God. But true wisdom was then “far from him,” in spite of his human wisdom, which he retained by God’s gift. So “over wise” (Ec 7:16).