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Ecclesiastes 2:12

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 12 Then I turned my attention to wisdom and madness and folly.+ (For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.)

Ecclesiastes 2:12

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 12 Then I turned my attention to wisdom and madness and folly.+ (For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.)

Ecclesiastes 2:12

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 12 And I, even I, turned to see wisdom+ and madness and folly;+ for what can the earthling man do who comes in after the king? The thing that people have already done.

Ecclesiastes 2:12

The Bible in Living English
- 12 ** And I faced round to see wisdom and craziness and foolery—because what is the man who comes after the king to do? what has been done already—

Ecclesiastes 2:12

American Standard Version
- 12 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 done long ago.

Ecclesiastes 2:12

The Emphasized Bible
- 12 Thus turned I to look at wisdom, and madness and folly,—for what can the man [do more] who cometh after the king? [save] that which already men have done.