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Ecclesiastes 1:17

Christian Standard Bible

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

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American Standard Version

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

English Standard Version

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

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know insanity and foolishness; I realized that this also is striving after wind.

New International Version

Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

New King James Version

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

New Living Translation

So I set out to learn everything from wisdom to madness and folly. But I learned firsthand that pursuing all this is like chasing the wind.

World English Bible

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