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Louis Segond 1910
Car avec beaucoup de sagesse on a beaucoup de chagrin, et celui qui augmente sa science augmente sa douleur.
KJV
For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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