Ecclesiastes 7:23 Cross References - YLT

²³ All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, `I am wise,' and it is far from me.

⁵ for God doth know that in the day of your eating of it—your eyes have been opened, and ye have been as God, knowing good and evil.'

¹¹ and God saith unto him, `Because that thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thee many days, nor asked for thee riches, nor asked the life of thine enemies, and hast asked for thee discernment to understand judgment, ¹² lo, I have done according to thy words; lo, I have given to thee a heart, wise and understanding, that like thee there hath not been before thee, and after thee there doth not arise like thee;

¹ And king Solomon hath loved many strange women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, females of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon, and of the Hittites, ² of the nations of which Jehovah said unto the sons of Israel, `Ye do not go in to them, and they do not go in to you; surely they turn aside your heart after their gods;' to them hath Solomon cleaved for love. ³ And he hath women, princesses, seven hundred, and concubines three hundred; and his wives turn aside his heart. ⁴ And it cometh to pass, at the time of the old age of Solomon, his wives have turned aside his heart after other gods, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, like the heart of David his father. ⁵ And Solomon goeth after Ashtoreth goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites; ⁶ and Solomon doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and hath not been fully after Jehovah, like David his father. ⁷ Then doth Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is on the front of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the sons of Ammon; ⁸ and so he hath done for all his strange women, who are perfuming and sacrificing to their gods.

²² professing to be wise, they were made fools,

²⁰ where is the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?