Ecclesiastes 2:12

New King James Version

Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly; For what can the man do who succeeds the king?— Only what he has already done.

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And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind.

I applied my heart to know, To search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things, To know the wickedness of folly, Even of foolishness and madness.

That which is has already been, And what is to be has already been; And God requires an account of what is past.