Ecclesiastes 12:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

John 21:25

But there are also many other things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

John 5:39

You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me;

1 Kings 4:32

He also uttered three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.

John 20:31

but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.