Bible verse
For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.
Ecclesiastes 1:18 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ecclesiastes 1.
14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
15 What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”
17 So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.
KJV
For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
ASV
For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
ERV
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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