Ecclesiastes 7:25 (YLT)

Passage

I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

Nearby Context

Ecclesiastes 7:23 All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, `I am wise,' and it <FI>is<Fi> far from me.

Ecclesiastes 7:24 Far off <FI>is<Fi> that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?

Ecclesiastes 7:25 I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart <FI>is<Fi> nets and snares, her hands <FI>are<Fi> bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Ecclesiastes 7:27 See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "turned", "round", "heart", "search", "seek", "wisdom", "reason", and "wrong". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "turned" and "round", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 24's "Far off FI is Fi that which..." into verse 26's "And I am finding more bitter than...", so "turned" and "round" belong inside that flow. In Ecclesiastes context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "turned" and "round" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.