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Ecclesiastes 1:16-18
EasyEnglish Bible
Ecclesiastes 1:16-18
EasyEnglish Bible
16 I said to myself, ‘Listen! I have become very wise! I am much wiser than any of the kings who ruled in Jerusalem before me. I know a lot more things than they ever did!’ 17 So I decided to study how much wisdom and knowledge really help a person. I wanted to learn if it was better than someone who only does foolish things. But this was also useless, like somebody who tries to catch the wind.
18 The more wisdom you have,
the more you will worry.
The more you learn,
the more you suffer.[a]
Footnotes
- 1:18 These were probably also proverbs. The more wisdom and knowledge that a person has, the more that person will understand that life has problems.
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