Ecclesiastes 2:12

New American Bible - revised edition

What about one who succeeds a king? He can do only what has already been done. Study of Wisdom and Folly. I went on to the consideration of wisdom, madness and folly.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:17

yet when I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly, I learned that this also is a chase after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:15

What now is has already been; what is to be, already is: God retrieves what has gone by. The Problem of Retribution.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my heart toward knowledge; I sought and pursued wisdom and its design, and I recognized that wickedness is foolishness and folly is madness. Critique of Advice on Women.