14. I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit!
15. A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
16. I--I spake with my heart, saying, `I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.
17. And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this [is] vexation of spirit;
18. for, in abundance of wisdom [is] abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'