Ecclesiastes 1:13; Ecclesiastes 1:16-18

Ecclesiastes 1:13

13 I applied my mind to investigate and to explore by wisdom all that happens under heaven. It's an unhappy obsession that God has given to human beings.

Ecclesiastes 1:16-18

16 I said to myself, Look here, I have grown much wiser than any who ruled over Jerusalem before me. My mind has absorbed great wisdom and knowledge.

17 But when I set my mind to understand wisdom, and also to understand madness and folly, I realized that this too was just wind chasing.

18 Remember: In much wisdom is much aggravation; the more knowledge, the more pain.