Ecclesiastes 1:17-18

New King James Version

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

¹⁸For ^(B)in much wisdom is much grief,
And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

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