Ecclesiastes 7:23 — text, Greek, lexicon

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

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

J'ai éprouvé tout cela par la sagesse. J'ai dit: Je serai sage. Et la sagesse est restée loin de moi.

KJV

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

Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ve done or not done something; "Thy conscience knoweth that thou hast often spoken evil of others" ( Eccles. 7:23 ), and according to this, conscience is said to witness. In another way, so far as through the conscience we judge that something should be done or not done; and in t…

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