^{23 Ref} All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

^{24 Ref} Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

^{25 Ref} I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.