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Futility of Human Wisdom

12 Then I turned to consider wisdom, madness and folly. For what more can the one who succeeds the king do than what he has already done? 13 I realized that:

Wisdom is more beneficial than folly
as light is better than darkness.
14 A wise man has his eyes in his head,
    while the fool walks in the darkness.
Yet, I also came to realize
    that the same destiny befalls them both.

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