17Then 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.
17Then 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.
14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
15 What is twisted cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
16 I thought to myself, "Look, I have grown and increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge."
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.
18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.
1:17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
1:17And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit,
1:17And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.
1:17And I applied my heart to the knowledge of wisdom, and to the knowledge of madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after the wind.
1:17And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.
1:17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
1:17I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
1:17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this is vexation of spirit;
1:17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.