Catholic Public Domain Version
"For your conscience knows that you, too, have repeatedly spoken evil of others. "
— Ecclesiastes 7:23, Catholic Public Domain Version
“All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.”
“All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. ”
“All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" but it was far from me.”
“Human Wisdom is Limited I have examined all this by wisdom; I said,“I am determined to comprehend this”– but it was beyond my grasp.”
“For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others.”
“All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.”
“All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.”
Wisdom has strengthened the wise more than ten princes of a city.
But there is no just man on earth, who does good and does not sin.
So then, do not attach your heart to every word that is spoken, lest perhaps you may hear your servant speaking ill of you.
For your conscience knows that you, too, have repeatedly spoken evil of others.
I have tested everything in wisdom. I have said: “I will be wise.” And wisdom withdrew farther from me,
so much more than it was before. Wisdom is very profound, so who shall reveal her?
I have examined all things in my soul, so that I may know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason, and so that I may recognize the impiety of the foolish, and the error of the imprudent.