Ecclesiastes 2:12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the one do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:15

That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is; and God seeks out what has gone by.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things, and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.