Ecclesiastes 1:14-17

¹⁴I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!

¹⁵A crooked thing one is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.

¹⁶I — 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.

¹⁷And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this is vexation of spirit;