¹² And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what `is' the man who cometh after the king? that which `is' already -- they have done it!

¹⁷ And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;

²⁵ I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

⁹ What `is' that which hath been? it `is' that which is, and what `is' that which hath been done? it `is' that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.

¹⁰ There is a thing of which `one' saith: `See this, it `is' new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!