The Vanity of Wisdom

12 I ^othe Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 And I ^papplied my heart¹ to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy ^qbusiness that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 14 I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is ^rvanity² and a striving after wind.³