Ecclesiastes 1:15-17 New King James Version (NKJV)

15. What is crooked cannot be made straight,And what is lacking cannot be numbered.

16. I communed with my heart, saying, “Look, I have attained greatness, and have gained more wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My heart has understood great wisdom and knowledge.”

17. And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1