Ecclesiastes 1:12-18
With Wisdom Comes Sorrow

12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

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13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all [things] that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

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14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

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15 [That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

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16 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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17 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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18 For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

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