Ecclesiastes 1:17

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

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WEBBE

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

BSB

So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.

KJV

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

ASV

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

BBE

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.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.