Ecclesiastes 2:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Wisdom and Joy Given to One Who Pleases God

¹²So 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. ¹³Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.

¹⁴The wise have eyes in their head,
but fools walk in darkness.

Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them.

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