Ecclesiastes 1:15-17

Young's Literal Translation

¹⁵ A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.

¹⁶ I -- I spake with my heart, saying, `I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.

¹⁷ And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this [is] vexation of spirit;