Ecclesiastes 2:15

A Conservative Version

Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it will happen even to me, and why then was I more wise? Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what advantage has the wise man more than the fool? What has the poor man, who knows how to walk before the living?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance forever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how the wise man dies even as the fool!

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 1:16

I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten for me great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yea, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

1 Kings 3:12

behold, I have done according to thy word. Lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there has been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like thee.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

Since there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?