14 I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole 'is' vanity and vexation of spirit!
15 A crooked thing 'one' is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
16 I -- I spake with my heart, saying, 'I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.
17 And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this 'is' vexation of spirit;
18 for, in abundance of wisdom 'is' abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'
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