New Revised Standard Version
For in much wisdom is much vexation, and those who increase knowledge increase sorrow.

Contemporary English Version
The more you know, the more you hurt; the more you understand, the more you suffer.

New American Bible
For in much wisdom there is much sorrow; whoever increases knowledge increases grief.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because in much wisdom there is much indignation: and he that addeth knowledge, addeth also labour.

Because in much wisdom there is much indignation: and he that addeth knowledge, addeth also labour.

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Ecclesiastes 2:15 And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:16 Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest thou become stupid.

Ecclesiastes 12:12,13 More than these, my son, require not. Of making many books there is no end: and much study is an affliction of the flesh. . . .

Job 28:28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

1 Corinthians 3:18-20 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. . . .

James 3:13-17 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge, among you? Let him shew, by a good contestation, his work in the meekness of wisdom. . . .