Ecclesiastes 2:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what he has already 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 striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:15

That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

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 the wickedness of folly and the foolishness which is madness.