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With Wisdom Comes Vexation and Anguish

How True This Seems To Be

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

wisdom 
חָכמָה chokmah (chok-maw') n-f.
wisdom (in a good sense).
-this is more like being skilled and possessing wit. 

grief
 כַּעַס ka`ac (kah'-as) n-m.
   כַּעַשׂ ka`as (kah'-as) [in Job]
vexation.

knowledge
 דַּעַת da`ath (dah'-ath) n-e.
knowledge.
-this is more informational such as being aware of something is to have knowledge on that.

sorrow
מַכְאֹב mak'ob (mak-oɓe') n-m.
   מַכְאוֹב mak'owb (mak-oɓe') [sometimes]
   מַכְאֹבָה mak'obah (mak-o-ɓaw') [feminine, Isaiah 53:3]
1. anguish.
2. (figuratively) affliction.
root from word of meaning: grief, pain, sorrow

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