...know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. > 9 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. By " wisdom" the Preacher here means knowledge. He excelled in learning all his predecessors in Jerusalem;...

...know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. is For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. By " wisdom" the Preacher here means knowledge. He excelled in learning all his predecessors in Jerusalem...

...come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem. In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. I said of laughter, It is mad : and of mirth, What doeth it ? He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied...

...to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceive that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Although finding all investigation to be vanity and vexation of spirit, he says, my heart still longed...

...alas ! he will often experience, with the Wise Man, that much study is a weariness of thejlesh ; for in much wisdom, is much grief ; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrotf." It was a favourable circumstance that the congregation at Newport consisted of many persons...

...better, if it have not attained the knowledge of thee? Since, as the Preacher hath most wisely observed, In much wisdom is much grief; and he, that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow; Eccl. i. 18. Oh, then, set off my heart from affecting that knowledge, whose end is sorrow ; and fix...

...madness and folly (that is, mirth and satire) : I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.' ' And, as he adds elsewhere, " Of making many books there is, no end; and much study is a weariness...

...to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to...

...instruction from thy youth up: so shalt thou find wisdom till thine old age. Ecclesiasticus 6:18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Ecclesiastes 1:18 ... be admonished; of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness...

.... . Much study is a weariness of the flesh. Ecclesiastes 12:12 Also read Ecclesiastes 12:9-14. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Ecclesiastes 1:18 f The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and...