Ecclesiastes 2:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly, for what can the king’s successor do? 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.