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Read Full Chapter (Ecclesiastes 1) Ecclesiastes 1:18 KJV
"For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."
Ecclesiastes Chapter 1, Verse 18
Ecclesiastes 1:18 in Context (Verses 15–18 KJV)
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.