23 All this I tested by wisdom and I said,

“I am determined to be wise”(A)
    but this was beyond me.

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

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23 All this I have [a]proved by wisdom.
(A)I said, “I will be wise”;
But it was far from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:23 tested

16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom(A) and to observe the labor that is done on earth(B)—people getting no sleep day or night—

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16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

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16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night,

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