Ecc 1:17, 7:25, Luk 6:11, 15:17, Act 26:11, 24, 2Pe 2:16 | ESV | STEP | And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly . I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind .

a ver. 13; [ch. 2:3, 12; 7:23, 25]

b ch. 9:3

c[See ver. 14 above]

dSee ch. 1:17

e 2 Tim. 3:9 (Gk.)

iSee ch. 13:45

l ch. 12:15; [ver. 8; ch. 17:32; 2 Kgs. 9:11; Jer. 29:26; Mark 3:21; John 10:20; 1 Cor. 1:23; 2:14; 4:10]

m Num. 22:21, 23, 28

Ecclesiastes 1:17

17 And I ^aapplied my heart to know wisdom and to know ^bmadness and folly. I perceived that this also is but ^ca striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

25 ^dI turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.

Luke 6:11

11 But they were filled with ^efury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

Luke 15:17

17 “But ^fwhen he ^gcame to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!

Acts 26:11

11 And ^hI punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them ⁱblaspheme, and ^jin raging fury against them I ^kpersecuted them even to foreign cities.

Acts 26:24

24 And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, ^lyou are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind.”

2 Peter 2:16

16 but was rebuked for his own transgression; ^ma speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.