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Ecclesiastes 2:12-17

2:12

And I turned
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myself to behold
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wisdom
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and madness
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and folly
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for what [can] the man
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[do] that cometh
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after
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the king
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[even] that which hath been already
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done
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{even...: or, in those things which have been already done}

2:13

Then I saw
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that
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wisdom
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excelleth
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folly
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as far as light
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excelleth
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darkness
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{that...: Heb. that there is an excellency in wisdom more than in folly, etc}

2:14

The wise man's
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eyes
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[are] in his head
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but the fool
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walketh
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in darkness
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and I myself perceived
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also that one
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event
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happeneth
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to them all.

2:15

Then
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said
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I in my heart
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As it happeneth
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to the fool
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so it happeneth
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even to me
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and why was I then more
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wise
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Then I said
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in my heart
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that this also [is] vanity
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{happeneth even...: Heb. happeneth to me, even to me}

2:16

For [there is] no remembrance
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of the wise
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more than
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of the fool
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for ever
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seeing that which now
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[is] in the days
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to come
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shall all be forgotten
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And how dieth
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the wise
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[man]? as the fool
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2:17

Therefore I hated
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life
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because the work
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that is wrought
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under the sun
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[is] grievous
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unto me: for all [is] vanity
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and vexation
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of spirit
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