For with great wisdom comes great frustration; whoever increases his knowledge merely increases his heartache.

So I was far wealthier than all my predecessors in Jerusalem, yet I maintained my objectivity:

I thought to myself, “I have become much wiser than any of my predecessors who ruled over Jerusalem; I have acquired much wisdom and knowledge.”

I also know that whatever God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it. God has made it this way, so that men will fear him.