“All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.”
Qohelet's statement that he tested all this by wisdom, desiring to know wisdom and to know madness and folly, returns to the methodological investigation announced in chapter 1. The phrase "to know madness and folly" indicates that the Preacher pursues understanding comprehensively, attempting to grasp even what appears irrational. This verse situates chapter 7's aphorisms within the larger project of philosophical investigation.
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