Ecclesiastes 1:16
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
More from Ecclesiastes 1
Verse 1
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Verse 2
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Verse 3
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Verse 4
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Verse 5
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.