And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
and Y purposide in my soule to seke and enserche wiseli of alle thingis, þat ben maad vndur þe sunne. God yaf this werste ocupacioun to þe sones of men, þat þei schulden be ocupied þerynne.