Ecclesiastes 2:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹³Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.

¹⁴The wise have eyes in their head,
but fools walk in darkness.

Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them. ¹⁵Then I said to myself, ‘What happens to the fool will happen to me also; why then have I been so very wise?’ And I said to myself that this also is vanity.

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