Ecc 7:25, 8:7, 9 | ESV | STEP | I 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 .

Ecclesiastes 7:25

25 ^aI 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.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

7 For he ^bdoes not know what is to be, for ^cwho can tell him how it will be?

Ecclesiastes 8:9

9 ^dAll this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt.