“I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:”
Qohelet's dedication to seeking wisdom and to understanding the foolishness of wickedness and the foolishness of folly represents the comprehensive scope of his investigation. The parallelism suggests that wisdom involves understanding not only its own nature but also the nature of its opposites. This verse indicates that the pursuit of wisdom requires engagement with folly, not merely contemplation of wisdom itself.
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