I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly, that I might thoroughly understand the nature and difference of truth and error, of virtue and vice, all things being best understood by contraries, and might discern if there were any opinion or practice amongst men which would give him full satisfaction. Vexation of spirit; or, feeding upon wind, as Ecclesiastes 1:14.
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Ecclesiastes 1:17
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.