Ecclesiastes 2:12

Then turned I me to consider wisdom, error and foolishness: for what is he among men, that might be compared to me the king in such work?

Ecclesiastes 1:17

for thereunto I applied my mind: that I might know what were wisdom and understanding, what were error and foolishness. And I perceived that this also was but a vexation of mind:

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I applied my mind also to knowledge, and to seek out science, wisdom and understanding: to know the foolishness of the ungodly, and the error of doting fools.

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10

The thing that hath been, cometh to pass again; and the thing that hath been done, again is done - there is nothing new under the Sun.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

Even that which hath been already done

Bible References

I turned

Ecclesiastes 1:17
for thereunto I applied my mind: that I might know what were wisdom and understanding, what were error and foolishness. And I perceived that this also was but a vexation of mind:
Ecclesiastes 7:25
I applied my mind also to knowledge, and to seek out science, wisdom and understanding: to know the foolishness of the ungodly, and the error of doting fools.

Even that which hath been already done

Ecclesiastes 2:25
For who will eat or go more lustily to his work than I?