Ecclesiastes 1:16-18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 (A)Though I said to myself, “See, I have greatly increased my wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem, and my mind has broad experience of wisdom and knowledge,” 17 yet when I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly, I learned that this also is a chase after wind.(B)
18 For in much wisdom there is much sorrow;
whoever increases knowledge increases grief.[a]
Footnotes
- 1:18 Sorrow…grief: these terms refer not just to a store of knowledge or to psychological or emotional pain. Corporal punishment, sometimes quite harsh, was also employed frequently by parents and teachers.
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