15 That which is [a]crooked, can none make straight: and that which faileth, cannot be numbered.

16 I thought in mine heart, and said, Behold, I am become great, and excel in wisdom all them that have been before me in Jerusalem: and mine heart hath seen much wisdom and knowledge.

17 And I gave mine heart to know wisdom and knowledge, [b]madness and foolishness: I knew also that this is a vexation of the spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:15 Man is not able by all his diligence to cause things to go otherwise than they do: neither can he number the faults that are committed, much less remedy them.
  2. Ecclesiastes 1:17 That is, vain things, which served unto pleasure, wherein was no commodity, but grief and trouble of conscience.

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