Ecclesiastes 7:25

American Standard Version (1901) ☆

I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

ASV Byzantine Text ☆

I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

English Berean Standard Bible ☆

I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

Bible in Basic English ☆

I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

Brenton English Septuagint ☆

I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account of things, and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.

Darby Translation ☆

I turned, I and my heart, to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and reason, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;

Douay-Rheims 1899 ☆

Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?

Geneva Bible 1599 ☆

All this haue I prooued by wisedome: I thought I will be wise, but it went farre from me.

Noyes Bible ☆

I applied my mind earnestly to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and intelligence, and to know wickedness and folly, yea, foolishness and madness.

Leeser Tanakh ☆

Then I turned myself about together with my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and experience, and to know the wickedness of folly, and the foolishness of madness.

JPS TaNaKH 1917 ☆

I turned about, and applied my heart to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;

King James Version ☆

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

King James Version + Apocrypha ☆

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

KJV Cambridge Paragraph ☆

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

LXX2012 U. S. English ☆

That which is far beyond what was, and a great depth, who shall find it out?

British English Septuagint 2012 ☆

That which is far beyond what was, and a great depth, who shall find it out?

Majority Standard BIble ☆

I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

Webster Bible ☆

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, even of foolishness and madness:

Revised Version ☆

I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness:

Updated Brenton English Septuagint ☆

I and my heart went round about to know, And to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account of things, And to know the folly and trouble And madness of the ungodly man.

World English Bible ☆

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

World English Bible (Catholic) ☆

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

World English Bible British Edition ☆

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

World English Bible British Edition with Deuterocanon ☆

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

World English Bible Classic ☆

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

World English Bible Updated ☆

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

World Messianic Bible ☆

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

World Messianic Bible British Edition ☆

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

Young's Literal Translation ☆

I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

The Orthodox Jewish Bible - Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha - The Holy Bible ☆

I applied mine lev to have da'as, and to search, and to seek out chochmah, and the cheshbon (scheme, plan) of things, and to have da'as of resha (wickedness) of kesel (stupidity), even of sichlut (folly) and holelot (madness).

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Arabic Van Dyck Bible ☆

دُرْتُ أَنَا وَقَلْبِي لِأَعْلَمَ وَلِأَبْحَثَ وَلِأَطْلُبَ حِكْمَةً وَعَقْلًا، وَلِأَعْرِفَ ٱلشَّرَّ أَنَّهُ جَهَالَةٌ، وَٱلْحَمَاقَةَ أَنَّهَا جُنُونٌ.

Burmese Common Language Bible ☆

ပညာတရားနှင့် အကျိုးအကြောင်းကို ရှာဖွေ စစ်ဆေး၍ သိနားလည်ခြင်းငှါ၎င်း၊ မိုက်စွာကျင့်ခြင်း၏ အပြစ်နှင့် ရူးခြင်း၏အပြစ်ကို သိနားလည်ခြင်းငှါ၎င်း၊ ငါနှင့်ငါ့နှလုံးသည် ဝိုင်းညီ၍ ကြိုးစားလေပြီ။

Judson Burmese Bible ☆

ပညာ တရားနှင့် အကျိုး အကြောင်းကို ရှာဖွေ စစ်ဆေး ၍ သိ နားလည်ခြင်းငှါ ၎င်း ၊ မိုက် စွာကျင့်ခြင်း၏ အပြစ်နှင့် ရူး ခြင်း၏အပြစ်ကို သိ နားလည်ခြင်းငှါ ၎င်း၊ ငါနှင့်ငါ့ နှလုံး သည် ဝိုင်း ညီ၍ ကြိုးစားလေပြီ။

Asang Khongca Bible ☆

Palunghahaih hoiah ohhaih takung to pakrong moe, panoek thaih pacoengah, kasae kaminawk amthuhaih hoi kamthunawk amthuhaih panoek thai hanah, ka poekhaih palungthin to ka paqoi.

Matupi Chin Standard Bible 2019 ☆

Kamah neh ka lungbuei khaw, uepnah koikah halangnah neh anglatnah, lunghmangnah te ming ham neh yaam hamla, cueihnah neh poeknah tlap hamla ka maelh.

Matupi Chin Standard Bible w/ Strongs ☆

Kamah neh ka lungbuei khaw, uepnah koikah halangnah neh anglatnah, lunghmangnah te ming ham neh yaam hamla, cueihnah neh poeknah tlap hamla ka maelh.

Chinese Union Version (simplified) ☆

我转念，一心要知道，要考察，要寻求智慧和 万事的理由；又要知道邪恶为愚昧，愚昧为狂妄。

Chinese Union Version (traditional) ☆

我轉念，一心要知道，要考察，要尋求智慧和 萬事的理由；又要知道邪惡為愚昧，愚昧為狂妄。

World Chinese Bible ☆

我转而专心要认识、考察、寻求智慧和事物的道理，并要知道邪恶是愚蠢，愚昧是疯狂。

Croatian Bible ☆

I još jednom pokušah istražiti i shvatiti mudrost i smisao, da spoznam opačinu kao ludost, a ludost kao bezumlje.

Czech Kralická Bible 1613 ☆

Všecko jsem přeběhl myslí svou, abych poznal a vyhledal, i vynalezl moudrost a rozumnost, a abych poznal bezbožnost, bláznovství a nemoudrost i nesmyslnost.

Danish Bible 1931 ☆

Jeg tog mig for at vende min Hu til Kundskab og Granskning og til at søge efter Visdom og sikker Viden og til at kende, at Gudløshed er Tåbelighed, Dårskab Vanvid.

Dutch Bible 1917 ☆

Ik keerde mij om, en mijn hart, om te weten, en om na te sporen, en te zoeken wijsheid en een sluitrede; en om te weten de goddeloosheid der zotheid, en de dwaasheid der onzinnigheden.

Dutch Bible, Petrus Canisius ☆

En toch heb ik mij er op toegelegd, Om kennis en doorzicht te verwerven, Om wijsheid te bekomen en inzicht, Om te begrijpen, dat de zonde een dwaasheid is, En wangedrag een zotheid moet zijn.

Esperanto Bible ☆

Mi turnis min kun mia koro, por ekkoni, esplori, kaj traserĉi saĝecon kaj prudenton, kaj ekscii, ke la malvirteco estas malsaĝeco kaj ke la senscieco estas sensenca.

French: Bible J.N. Darby ☆

Je me suis mis, moi et mon cœur, à connaître et à explorer et à rechercher la sagesse et l’intelligence, et à connaître que la méchanceté est sottise, et la folie, déraison ;

French Ostervald Bible ☆

J'ai appliqué mon cœur à connaître, à sonder et à chercher la sagesse et la raison de tout, et à connaître la méchanceté de la folie, et la sottise de la déraison.

French Louis Segond 1910 Bible ☆

Je me suis appliqué dans mon cœur à connaître, à sonder, et à chercher la sagesse et la raison des choses, et à connaître la folie de la méchanceté et la stupidité de la sottise.

French Free Holy Bible for the World ☆

Je me tournai de tout mon cœur pour connaître, explorer et rechercher la sagesse et la raison des choses, et pour comprendre que la méchanceté est stupidité et la folie, démence.

German Unrevised Elberfelder Bible ☆

Ich wandte mich, und mein Herz ging darauf aus, Weisheit und ein richtiges Urteil zu erkennen und zu erkunden und zu suchen, und zu erkennen, daß die Gesetzlosigkeit Torheit ist, und die Narrheit Tollheit.

German Luther Bible 1912 ☆

Ich kehrte mein Herz, zu erfahren und erforschen und zu suchen Weisheit und Kunst, zu erfahren der Gottlosen Torheit und Irrtum der Tollen,

German Textbibel ☆

Ich wandte mich, und mein Sinn war darauf gerichtet, zu erkennen und zu erforschen und Weisheit und kluge Berechnung zu suchen und zu erkennen, daß Frevel Thorheit und Narrheit Tollheit ist.

German Schlachter Bible 1951 ☆

Ich ging herum, und mein Herz war dabei, zu erkennen und zu erforschen und zu fragen nach Weisheit und dem Endergebnis, aber auch kennen zu lernen, wie dumm die Gottlosigkeit und wie toll die Narrheit ist;

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SEPTUAGINTA ☆

ἐκύκλωσα ἐγώ, καὶ ἡ καρδία μου τοῦ γνῶναι καὶ τοῦ κατασκέψασθαι καὶ τοῦ ζητῆσαι σοφίαν καὶ ψῆφον καὶ τοῦ γνῶναι ἀσεβοῦς ἀφροσύνην καὶ ὀχληρίαν καὶ περιφοράν.

Brenton Septuagint ☆

Ἐκύκλωσα ἐγὼ καὶ ἡ καρδία μου τοῦ γνῶναι καὶ τοῦ κατασκέψασθαι καὶ τοῦ ζητῆσαι σοφίαν καὶ ψῆφον, καὶ τοῦ γνῶναι ἀσεβοῦς ἀφροσύνην καὶ ὀχληρίαν καὶ περιφοράν.

Haitian Creole Bible 1985 ☆

Men, mwen pran san m' pou m' chache konnen, pou m' egzaminen tout bagay. Mwen te soti pou m' te konprann, pou m' te jwenn repons pou tout keksyon mwen t'ap poze tèt mwen, pou m' te rive konnen jan moun mechan yo pèdi tèt yo, jan moun sòt yo egare.

Hawaiian Bible 1868 ☆

Ua haawi au i ko'u naau e ike, a e huli, a e imi hoi i ka naauao, a me ke ano [o na mea,] a e ike hoi i ka hewa o ka naaupo, a o ka noho lapuwale, a me ka uhauha.

Hebrew Masoretic OT ☆

סַבֹּ֨ותִֽי אֲנִ֤י וְלִבִּי֙ לָדַ֣עַת וְלָת֔וּר וּבַקֵּ֥שׁ חָכְמָ֖ה וְחֶשְׁבֹּ֑ון וְלָדַ֙עַת֙ רֶ֣שַׁע כֶּ֔סֶל וְהַסִּכְל֖וּת הֹולֵלֹֽות׃

Modern Hebrew Bible ☆

סבותי אני ולבי לדעת ולתור ובקש חכמה וחשבון ולדעת רשע כסל והסכלות הוללות׃

Italian Diodati Bible ☆

Io mi sono aggirato con l'anima mia, per conoscere, per investigare, e per ricercar sapienza, e come si deve ben giudicar delle cose; e per conoscere l'empietà della stoltizia, e la follia delle pazzie;

Italian Riveduta Bible ☆

Io mi sono applicato nel cuor mio a riflettere, a investigare, a cercare la sapienza e la ragion delle cose, e a riconoscere che l’empietà è una follia e la stoltezza una pazzia;

Japanese Freedom Bible ☆

私は向きを変え、心を傾けて、知り、探り、知恵と物事の道理を求め、悪は愚かさであり、愚かさは狂気であることを知ろうとした。

Korean Bible 1910 ☆

내가 돌이켜 전심으로 지혜와 명철을 살피고 궁구하여 악한 것이 어리석은 것이요 어리석은 것이 미친 것인 줄을 알고자 하였더니

Kosraean Bible ☆

Tusruktu nga eisyuyang nu ke etauk ac lutlut; nga tuh sulela nga in suk lalmwetmet ac top nu ke mwe siyuk luk, ac in etu lupan koluk ac lalfon lun nikin uh.

Clementine Vulgate 1598 ☆

multo magis quam erat. Et alta profunditas, quis inveniet eam?]

Old Persion Version Bible ☆

پس برگشته دل خود را بر معرفت و بحث و طلب حکمت وعقل مشغول ساختم تا بدانم که شرارت حماقت است و حماقت دیوانگی است.

World Portuguese Bible ☆

Eu me voltei, e meu coração buscou saber, investigar, e buscar a sabedoria e a razão das coisas, e saber que a maldade é estupidez, e que a tolice é loucura.

Portuguese Bíblia Livre ☆

Decidi em meu coração conhecer, investigar e buscar a sabedoria e a razão; e saber o mal que há na tolice e na loucura das maluquices.

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Romanian BTF Bible ☆

Mi-am dedicat inima să cunosc și să cercetez și să descopăr înțelepciune și motivul lucrurilor și să cunosc stricăciunea prostiei, chiar a nechibzuinței și a nebuniei;

Romanian Bible (Cyrillic) ☆

М-ам апукат ши ам черчетат тоате лукруриле ку гынд сэ ынцелег, сэ адынческ ши сэ каут ынцелепчуня ши ростул лукрурилор ши сэ причеп небуния рэутэций ши рэтэчиря простией.

Russian Synodal Bible ☆

Обратился я сердцем моим к тому, чтобы узнать, исследовать и изыскать мудрость и разум, и познать нечестие глупости, невежества и безумия,

Serbian DK Bible (Latin) ☆

Okretoh se srcem svojim da poznam i izvidim i iznađem mudrost i razum, i da poznam bezbožnost ludosti i ludost bezumlja.

Serbian DK Bible (Cyrillic) ☆

Окретох се срцем својим да познам и извидим и изнађем мудрост и разум, и да познам безбожност лудости и лудост безумља.

Mashi Bible ☆

Nashubijà aho nacîhangâna nti nongereze oburhimanya haguma n’oluhembo; nti manye oku obubî linali isirhe, n’oku okuhwinjagala kunali kuhaba.

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Reina Valera 1909 ☆

Yo he rodeado con mi corazón por saber, y examinar, é inquirir la sabiduría, y la razón; y por conocer la maldad de la insensatez, y el desvarío del error;

Spanish BLL ☆

Me dediqué de lleno a investigar y a buscar la sabiduría y la lógica de lo que sucede, para entender que la maldad es una estupidez y la necedad una locura.

Spanish Free Bible for the World ☆

Volví yo mi corazón para saber y examinar e inquirir la sabiduría y la razón de las cosas, y para conocer la maldad de la insensatez y la necedad de la locura.

La Biblia en Español Sencillo ☆

Me dediqué a conocer y a buscar la sabiduría y la razón de las cosas, y reconocer la maldad de la insensatez y la necedad de la locura.

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Spanish Bible (God's Word for You) ☆

Dirigí mi corazón al saber, A escudriñar y a buscar el conocimiento y la razón. Procuré conocer cuál es la peor insensatez: La necedad de la locura.

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Revised West Version ☆

Naʻaku tuku hoku loto ke ʻilo mo hakule, pea ke kumi atu ki he poto, mo hono ʻuhinga ʻoe ngaahi meʻa, pea ke ʻilo ʻae kovi ʻoe vale, ʻio, ʻae vale mo e hē.

Ukrainian Bible by P. Kulish ☆

Я звернув серце моє на се, щоб розізнати, вислїдити та розиськати мудрість і розум, і пізнати погань дурноти, незнання та безумностї, —

Ukrainian Freedom Bible ☆

Я звернув серце моє на се, щоб розізнати, вислїдити та розиськати мудрість і розум, і пізнати погань дурноти, незнання та безумностї, —

Vietnamese Bible 1923 ☆

Ta lại hết lòng chuyên lo cho hiểu biết, xét nét, kiếm tìm sự khôn ngoan và chánh lý muôn vật, lại cho biết rằng gian ác là dại dột và sự dại dột là điên cuồng.

Hebrew OT (WLC) ☆

סַבּ֨וֹתִֽי אֲנִ֤י וְלִבִּי֙ לָדַ֣עַת וְלָת֔וּר וּבַקֵּ֥שׁ חָכְמָ֖ה וְחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן וְלָדַ֨עַת֙ רֶ֣שַׁע כֶּ֔סֶל וְהַסִּכְל֖וּת הוֹלֵלֽוֹת׃