Ecclesiastes 7:23 says, All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.  Solomon had been discussing the failure of pleasure to bring happiness in life.  He had been given great wisdom from God, the Author of all true wisdom, but he had not lived wisely.  To know what God wants from His people is not enough.  We must live under His authority.  Solomon had said that he would be wise, but found the practice of living controlled by that wisdom to be far from him.  We, as followers of Christ, have vowed to live under His leadership, but often the way we live is far from the way He would have us to live.  We may look to our own understanding instead of looking to God for understanding.  No matter how wise we may think we are, without acknowledging God as the Lord of all, it will amount to nothing.  There are some very intelligent people in the world today who lack any wisdom.  We must remember that true wisdom comes from God, and many of these very intelligent people say they are to smart to believe in God, so they really do lack wisdom.  Verse twenty four says, That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?  I believe Solomon was speaking about knowing the mind of God.  God is far above us in His knowledge, and His knowledge is so deep we can never comprehend it all.  We certainly can never understand God by attempting to find knowledge in the things of this world.  We can only accept His will by faith and rely on His revealing His will to us.  When we begin to feel wise in our own understanding, and leave God out of our thoughts about life and the world, we are really just as the fool.  Now today, we might say that we should not use the term fool, but we must remember the Biblical definition of the word.  It is someone who believes with all their heart that there is no God.  No matter how brilliant they are in the eyes of the world, or even in their own eyes, in the eyes of God, they are a fool.  Solomon, in all his wisdom, often acted as a fool.  If we begin to look for wisdom anywhere other than through God, we will be acting the same way.