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No, this is not a boast. It is a lament. He became the wisest man in the world, and one of its greatest, but now he finds that neither his wisdom nor his greatness can give him peace.

He thought he was filling up a hole with wisdom and greatness, but he was creating a bigger one. Why? Because “all men are like the grass.” If it is life we want, which is our own built-in standard of greatness, then wisdom cannot give us what we are looking for.

All wisdom can do is show us that we have fallen short of the mark.