Ecclesiastes 2:12-14

Modern English Version

¹² So I turned to consider wisdom,
    the folly of ideas, and foolish behavior;
for what else can a man do who comes after the king?
    Or what more than those have already done?
¹³ Then I saw that there is more benefit in wisdom than in foolishness,
    more benefit in light than in darkness.
¹⁴ A wise man has eyes in his head so he sees where he walks,
    but the fool continues in darkness.
Yet I perceived
    that the same fate overtakes them all.