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Ecclesiastes 1:17
NIV:  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.
NAS:  And I set my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I realized that this also is striving after wind.
KJV:  And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
GWT:  I've used my mind to understand wisdom and knowledge as well as madness and stupidity. [Now] I know that this is [like] trying to catch the wind.
ASV:  And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.
BBE:  And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.
DBY:  And I applied my heart to the knowledge of wisdom, and to the knowledge of madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after the wind.
DRB:  And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit,
WBS:  And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
WEB:  I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
YLT:  And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this is vexation of spirit;

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