Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless

12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
    and also madness and folly.(A)
What more can the king’s successor do
    than what has already been done?(B)

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12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

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15 Whatever is has already been,(A)
    and what will be has been before;(B)
    and God will call the past to account.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:15 Or God calls back the past

15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

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