Ecclesiastes 1:16-18

Jubilee Bible 2000

¹⁶ I communed with my own heart, saying, Behold, I am come to great estate and have gotten more wisdom than all those that have been before me in Jerusalem; and my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

¹⁷ And I gave my heart to know wisdom and knowledge and to know folly and those who are mad; I learned in the end that this also is vexation of spirit.

¹⁸ For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.