Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.In other versions
And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.
ASV
And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.
BBE
And I applied my heart to the knowledge of wisdom, and to the knowledge of madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after the wind.
DBY
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
WEB
And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;
YLT
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
ENG
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
WBT
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
BSB
In context
15That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
16I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
18For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.