Ecclesiastes 2:12 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I, that he can follow the King his maker?)

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² So I turned to consider [human] wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do who succeeds the king? Nothing but what has been done already.

American Standard Version (1901)

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 done long ago.

Common English Bible

¹² My reflections then turned to wisdom, madness, and folly. What can the king’s heir do but what has already been done?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² I continued on, so as to contemplate wisdom, as well as error and foolishness. "What is man," I said, "that he would be able to follow his Maker, the King?"

Ecclesiastes 2:12 পৰস্পৰ সংযোগসমূহ

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit,

Ecclesiastes 7:25

Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?

Ecclesiastes 3:15

That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.