Ecclesiastes 2:12
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Wisdom and Joy Given to One Who Pleases God
12 So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly, for what can the king’s successor do? Only what has already been done.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 1:17
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17 And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a chasing after wind.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 7:25
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25 I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 1:9-10
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9 What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done;
there is nothing new under the sun.(A)
10 Is there a thing of which it is said,
“See, this is new”?
It has already been
in the ages before us.
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