All this, or all these things, of which I have here discoursed,
have I proved, I have diligently examined and found all this to be true, by wisdom; by the help of that singular wisdom which God had given me.
I said, I will be wise; I determined within myself that I would by all possible means seek to attain perfection of wisdom, and I persuaded myself that I should attain to it.
But it was far from me; I found myself greatly disappointed, and the more I knew, the more I saw mine own folly and misery.