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Ecclesiastes 2:12
King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible
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 (note: Or, in those things which have been already done).
Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?