OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 2:9

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So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

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Verse 9. Wisdom, not that which was supernatural, and could not be found amid such delights. verse 3. Jam. 3:17. I knew that all this was vanity. Calmet.

Video meliora proboque,

Deteriora sequor. Ovid. Bible.

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