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 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.

Ecclesiastes 3:15

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