Ecclesiastes 1:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 1:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 28:28
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Ecclesiastes 12:12-13
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. …
1 Corinthians 3:18-20
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. …
Ecclesiastes 7:16
Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
James 3:13-17
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-18)

Solomon, having asserted in general that all is vanity, and having given some general proofs of it, now takes the most effectual method to evince the truth of it, 1. By his own experience; he tried them all, and found them vanity. 2. By an induction of particulars; and here he begins with that which bids fairest of all to be the happiness of a reasonable creature, and that is knowledge and learnin…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. wisdom ... knowledge--not in general, for wisdom, &c., are most excellent in their place; but speculative knowledge of man’s ways (Ec 1:13, 17), which, the farther it goes, gives one the more pain to find how “crooked” and “wanting” they are (Ec 1:15; 12:12).