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Ecclesiastes 2:15

American Standard Version

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity.

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Ecclesiastes 2:15 in other translations

Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:15 · World English Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:15 in context

  1. 13Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
  2. 14The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.
  3. 15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity.
  4. 16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!
  5. 17So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.