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Ecclesiastes 1:14-18 Common English Bible (CEB)

14. When I observed all that happens under the sun, I realized that everything is pointless, a chasing after wind.

15. What’s crooked can’t be straightened;what isn’t there can’t be counted.

16. I said to myself, Look here, I have grown much wiser than any who ruled over Jerusalem before me. My mind has absorbed great wisdom and knowledge.

17. But when I set my mind to understand wisdom, and also to understand madness and folly, I realized that this too was just wind chasing.

18. Remember:In much wisdom is much aggravation;the more knowledge, the more pain.

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