13 And I japplied my heart1 to seek and to ksearch out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an lunhappy mbusiness that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
16 I said in my heart, “I have acquired great wisdom, psurpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”
17 And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know qmadness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.
The Vanity of Living Wisely
12 So I turned to consider wisdom and hmadness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? iOnly what has already been done.
25 I turned my heart to know and to bsearch out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of cfolly and the foolishness that is madness.
16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one’s eyes see sleep,
