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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The End of the Wise and the Fool

12 Then I turned myself to consider wisdom (A)and madness and folly;
For what can the man do who succeeds the king?—
Only what he has already (B)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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Notas al pie

  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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15 (A)That which is has already been,
And what is to be has already been;
And God [a]requires an account of [b]what is past.

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Notas al pie

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:15 Lit. seeks
  2. Ecclesiastes 3:15 what is pursued