Ecclesiastes 7:23-25

EJ2000(i) 23 ¶ All this I have proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me. 24 That which has been is far off and that which is exceeding deep, who can find it out? 25 I applied my heart to know and to search and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the madness of error;