Ecclesiastes 7:25
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

King James Bible
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:

Hebrew
I
אֲנִ֤י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

directed
סַבּ֨וֹתִֽי (sab·bō·w·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5437: To turn about, go around, surround

my mind
וְלִבִּי֙ (wə·lib·bî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

to understand,
לָדַ֣עַת (lā·ḏa·‘aṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3045: To know

to explore,
וְלָת֔וּר (wə·lā·ṯūr)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8446: To meander, about, for, trade, reconnoitring

to search out
וּבַקֵּ֥שׁ (ū·ḇaq·qêš)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after

wisdom
חָכְמָ֖ה (ḥāḵ·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2451: Wisdom

and explanations,
וְחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן (wə·ḥeš·bō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2808: Contrivance, intelligence

and to understand
וְלָדַ֙עַת֙ (wə·lā·ḏa·‘aṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1847: Knowledge

the stupidity
כֶּ֔סֶל (ke·sel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3689: Fatness, the loin, the viscera, silliness, trust

of wickedness
רֶ֣שַׁע (re·ša‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7562: Wickedness

and the folly
וְהַסִּכְל֖וּת (wə·has·siḵ·lūṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5531: Silliness

of madness.
הוֹלֵלֽוֹת׃ (hō·w·lê·lō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1947: Madness

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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