Ecclesiastes 2:12
I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 7:25
I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
Ecclesiastes 1:9-10
That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
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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.
I turned
Even that which hath been already done
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I turned
Ecclesiastes 1:17
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 7:25
I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
Even that which hath been already done
Ecclesiastes 2:25
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?