Ecclesiastes 2:12 meaning and explanation

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?

Ecclesiastes 2:12, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is the Teacher, a royal figure in Jerusalem who has tested pleasure, building projects and wealth and found them hollow. Here he turns from those experiments to compare wisdom with madness and folly.

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