 | Joseph Benson - Bible - 1846 - 1102 pages
...know wisdom, and to know madness and folly : I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. 18 For rd, separating themselves from his worship, have AM 3298 BC 706. down in, for my p * Heb. had teen natch. — —t Chap. il. 3, 12 ; vii. 23, 25 ; 1 TheM. v. 21. iChap. xii. 12. fore... | |
 | 1846 - 512 pages
...contained in the passage under consideration, when its true meaning is developed. He had said before, that in " much wisdom is much grief; and he that "increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow." He had represented all the joy resulting from self-indulgence, the only good,as he affirms,left to... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 pages
...pursuit of it; that he exhausted the learning of his time, and finding, like the Jewish sage, that " in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow," fell into a discontent and bitterness of soul. The " much grief " of the sage proceeded from the feeling... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Presbyterian Church - 1848 - 672 pages
...done under heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.' II. Let us next consider, how or what way upright man fell. It was so that our first parents sinned,... | |
 | Caroline Fry Wilson - Christian biography - 1848 - 542 pages
...the wise ? So said the wisest ; and he had a right to know, for he had tried— he had declared that, "In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." It should seem, therefore, that wisdom had loss by the way, and in the end no gain. And it is even... | |
 | Sermons, English - 1848 - 642 pages
...to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. And, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief : and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Eccles. i. 13, 14, 18. As speculation and theory cannot satisfy the mind, so neither can gr?at world,... | |
 | William Abiah Newman - 1848 - 318 pages
...search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven;" and he came to this conclusion, "in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Now let us suppose such an one thus wearied and disappointed in his pursuit of knowledge, opening his... | |
 | James Richards - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 404 pages
...obtain a rest to your soul — and you will find only, what Solomon long since found before you, " that in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow." If you run through the history of past generations — if you visit every country on the globe —... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1849 - 872 pages
...know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. > 9 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. By " wisdom" the Preacher here means knowledge. He excelled in learning all his predecessors in Jerusalem;... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 778 pages
...know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. is For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. By " wisdom" the Preacher here means knowledge. He excelled in learning all his predecessors in Jerusalem... | |
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And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. 
