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Ecclesiastes 1:16 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 1 · verse 16
I 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.Ecclesiastes 1:16 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 1:16 in context
14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- experiencerâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- JerusalemYᵉrûwshâlaimJerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of PalestineH3389 →
- communeddâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- sayingʼâmarto sayH559 →
- estategâdalto be largeH1431 →
- gottenyâçaphto add or augmentH3254 →
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Solomon, having asserted in general that all is vanity, and having given some general proofs of it, now takes the most effectual method to evince the truth of it, 1. By his own experience; he tried them all, and found them vanity. 2. By an induction of particulars;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-18