Ecclesiastes 1:17

15 ^aWhat is crooked cannot be made straight,
And what is lacking cannot be numbered.

16 I communed with my heart, saying, “Look, I have attained greatness, and have gained ^amore wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My heart has¹ understood great wisdom and knowledge.”

17 ^aAnd I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind.

18 For ^ain much wisdom is much grief,
And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Ecclesiastes 1:17

To know - That I might throughly understand the nature and difference of truth and error, of virtue and vice.

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