Qoheleth’s Investigation into Wisdom

Ecclesiastes 1:12-18

I, a preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.

And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It is a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!

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

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.

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

for, in abundance of wisdom is abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'

Qoheleth’s Investigation into Wisdom

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