Ecclesiastes 2:12-14

Holman Christian Standard Bible

The Relative Value of Wisdom

¹² Then I turned to consider wisdom,^(A) madness, and folly, for what will the man be like who comes after the king? He^[a] will do what has already been done.^{(B) 13} And I realized that there is an advantage to wisdom over folly, like the advantage of light over darkness.^(C)

Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both.^(E)