Man Talk

Ever felt like if you just searched hard enough, you’d finally figure life out? Solomon thought so too. But the more he chased wisdom, the more it slipped through his fingers. Welcome to The Daily, where we go through the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every single day. Today, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes 7:23-29: All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me. That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out? 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. And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her. Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things— which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand