Ecclesiastes 2:12

I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

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WEBBE

I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

BSB

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?

KJV

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.

ASV

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.

BBE

And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.

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וּפָנִיתִי u·fa·ni·ti and I turned H6437 אֲנִי 'a·ni I H589 לִרְאוֹת lir·'ot to consider H7200 חָכְמָה chokh·mah wisdom H2451 וְהוֹלֵלוֹת ve·ho·le·lot and madness H1947 וְסִכְלוּת ve·sikh·lut and folly H5531 כִּי ki for H3588 מֶה meh what H4100 הָאָדָם ha·'a·dam [is] the person H120 שֶׁיָּבוֹא shei·ya·vo' who (he )will come H935 אַחֲרֵי 'a·cha·rei after H310 הַמֶּלֶךְ ha·me·lekh the king H4428 אֵת 'et (marks the object) H853 אֲשֶׁר־ 'a·sher- [that] which H834 כְּבָר ke·var already H3528 עָשׂוּהוּ 'a·su·hu people have done it H6213

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.