Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 7:23

23 All this have I proved by wisdom : I said, I will be wise , but it was far from me .

Or, All these things; of which I have here discoursed.

I have diligently examined and found all this to be true.

By the help of that singular Wisdom which God had given me.

I determined within my self that I would by all possible means seek to attain perfection of wisdom, and I persuaded my self that I should attain to it.

I found my self greatly disappointed, and the more I knew, the more I saw mine own folly and misery.