10 Is there anything of which one can say,
    “Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
    it was here before our time.

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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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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

10 Whatever exists has already been named,(A)
    and what humanity is has been known;
no one can contend
    with someone who is stronger.

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