“And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.”
Ecclesiastes 1:17 (KJV) |
Ecclesiastes 1:17
From Ecclesiastes 1, in the Book of Ecclesiastes (Old Testament).
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That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
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I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
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And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
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For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.