King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 1:16
“I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all [they] that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 1
14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
15
[That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
16
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all [they] that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
17
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
18
For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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