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Ecclesiastes 2:12-14
New Living Translation
Ecclesiastes 2:12-14
New Living Translation
The Wise and the Foolish
12 So I decided to compare wisdom with foolishness and madness (for who can do this better than I, the king?[a]). 13 I thought, “Wisdom is better than foolishness, just as light is better than darkness. 14 For the wise can see where they are going, but fools walk in the dark.” Yet I saw that the wise and the foolish share the same fate.
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- 2:12 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
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