Ecclesiastes 2:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I, that he can follow the King his maker?)

¹³ And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness.

¹⁴ The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.