Ecclesiastes 2:12-14

New Century Version

¹² Then I began to think again about being wise,
    and also about being foolish and doing crazy things.
But after all, what more can anyone do?
    He can’t do more than what the other king has already done.
¹³ I saw that being wise is certainly better than being foolish,
    just as light is better than darkness.
¹⁴ Wise people see where they are going,
    but fools walk around in the dark.
Yet I saw that
    both wise and foolish people end the same way.