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a fool at times. So we don't even know that
we're going to leave any wealth to
somebody who deserves it or even can
handle it.
We find this wisdom again in chapter 7.
Then in 1 Corinthians 8:1, we know that
“Knowledge puffeth up.” It causes us to be
prideful if there's no charity, no love and
those kinds of things. Second Timothy 3:7
speaks of those who are “Ever learning, and
never able to come to the knowledge of the
truth.” So what I'm getting at is that
Solomon pursued wisdom and he began
pursuing it apart from God at a time in his
life, and he regretted that. Philosophy
defined, that is, wisdom without God is —
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