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Ecclesiastes 1:17 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 1 · verse 17
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 1:17 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 1:17 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- vexationraʻyôwndesireH7475 →
- madnesshôwlêlâhfollyH1947 →
- wisdomchokmâhwisdomH2451 →
- heartlêbthe heartH3820 →
- follyçiklûwthsillinessH5531 →
- gavenâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
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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