Then I turned to consider wisdom, madness and folly. For what more can the one who succeeds the king do than what he has already done?
So I applied my heart to know wisdom as well as to know madness and folly. I learned that this too was pursuit of the wind.
So I turned my heart to understand, to search and seek out wisdom and an explanation of things and to know the stupidity of wickedness and madness of folly.
Whatever exists, has already been and whatever will be, has already been, but God recalls what has passed.