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Ecclesiastes 1:17

New American Standard Bible NAS

New International Version NIV

17 And I set my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I realized that this also is striving after wind.

17 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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