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Ecclesiastes 1:13; Ecclesiastes 1:16-18
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Ecclesiastes 1:13
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I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!
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Ecclesiastes 1:16-18
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I said to myself, “Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.”
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Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
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For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.
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