Wisdom Excels Folly

¹² So I turned to ^(A)see wisdom, madness, and simpleminded folly. What will the man do who will come after the king except ^(B)what has already been done? ¹³ And I saw that there is an advantage in ^(C)wisdom over simpleminded folly as light has an advantage over darkness. ¹⁴ The wise man’s eyes are in his head, but the ^(D)fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that the ^(E)fate of one becomes the fate of all of them. ¹⁵ Then I said in my heart, “^(F)As is the fate of the fool, so will my fate be also. ^(G)Why then have I been extremely wise?” So I said in my heart, “This too is vanity.” ¹⁶ For there is ^(H)no remembrance of the wise man along with the fool forever, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And ^(I)how the wise man dies with the fool!