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Ecclesiastes 1:17-18
1599 Geneva Bible
Ecclesiastes 1:17-18
1599 Geneva Bible
17 And I gave mine heart to know wisdom and knowledge, [a]madness and foolishness: I knew also that this is a vexation of the spirit.
18 For in the multitude of wisdom is much [b]grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.
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- Ecclesiastes 1:17 That is, vain things, which served unto pleasure, wherein was no commodity, but grief and trouble of conscience.
- Ecclesiastes 1:18 Wisdom and knowledge cannot be come by without great pain of body and mind: for when a man hath attained to the highest, yet is his mind never fully content: therefore in this world is no true felicity.
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV) 
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