Ecclesiastes 1:14-18

I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is futility and striving after wind.

What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

I said to myself, “Behold, I have magnified and increased wisdom more than all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”

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

Because in much wisdom there is much grief; and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.