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Maybe Wisdom Is the Answer

12 Then I began to think again about being wise.
    And I thought also about being foolish and doing crazy things.
But after all, what more can any king do?
    He can only do what some 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 A wise man sees where he is going.
    But a foolish person is like someone walking around in the dark.
Yet I saw that
    both the foolish person and the wise man end the same way.

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Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless

12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
    and also madness and folly.(A)
What more can the king’s successor do
    than what has already been done?(B)
13 I saw that wisdom(C) is better than folly,(D)
    just as light is better than darkness.
14 The wise have eyes in their heads,
    while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
    that the same fate overtakes them both.(E)

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