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Ecclesiastes 1:17

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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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  1. Ecclesiastes 1:15

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

  2. Ecclesiastes 1:16

    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.

  3. Ecclesiastes 1:18

    For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.