Ecclesiastes 2:11-13

Revised Geneva Translation

¹¹ Then I looked on all my works that my hands had wrought, and on the work that I had labored to do. And behold, all is vanity and grasping at the wind. And there is no profit under the Sun.

¹² And I turned to behold wisdom and madness and folly. For what may the man who will come after the king do except that which men now have done?

¹³ Then I saw that there is more profit in wisdom than in folly, as the light is more excellent than darkness.