Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 1:18.

Famous quotes containing the words ecclesiastes 1:18, hebrew and/or ecclesiastes:

    For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 1:18.

    Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise; why shouldest thou destroy thyself? Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes, 7:16-17.

    man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an
    evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the
    sons of men snared in an evil time,
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. IX, 12)