Ecclesiastes 1:18

American Standard Version (1901)

For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

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  • Eccl 12:12-13 : 12 And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. 13 [This is] the end of the matter; all hath been heard: fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole [duty] of man.
  • 1 Cor 3:18-20 : 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness: 20 and again, The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.
  • Eccl 2:15 : 15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity.
  • Eccl 2:23 : 23 For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
  • Eccl 7:16 : 16 Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
  • Jas 3:13-17 : 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.

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    13And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

    15That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

    16I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

    17And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

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    19And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

    20Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

    21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

    22For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

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    26For to the man that pleaseth him [God] giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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    3Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad.

    4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

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    12And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

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    5That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

    6To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

    7The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

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    13Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

    14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

    15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity.

    16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

    17So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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    16When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;

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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes), [

    17then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

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    4And by knowledge are the chambers filled With all precious and pleasant riches.

    5A wise man is strong; Yea, a man of knowledge increaseth might.

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    15The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

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    13Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, And the man that getteth understanding.

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    18Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

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    10For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

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    2To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;

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    18The simple inherit folly; But the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

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    10The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

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    3The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against Jehovah.

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    11Wisdom is as good as an inheritance; yea, more excellent is it for them that see the sun.

    12For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.

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    13Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness.

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    22Understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it; But the correction of fools is [their] folly.

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    13I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this wise, and it seemed great unto me:

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    9So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

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    23All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

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    21Folly is joy to him that is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding maketh straight his going.

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    11Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

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    12But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

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    6A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and [findeth it] not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.