Ecclesiastes 2:15 Cross References - LEB

¹⁵ So I said _⌊to myself_⌋,* "_⌊If I also suffer the same fate as the fool_⌋,* _⌊what advantage is my great wisdom_⌋?"* So I said _⌊to myself_⌋,* "This also is vanity!"

¹² behold, I do hereby do according to your word. I hereby give you a wise and discerning heart; there was no one like you before you, nor afterwards will one like you arise.

² "Vanity of vanities!" says the Teacher,* "Vanity of vanities! All is vanity!"

¹⁴ I saw all the works that are done under the sun. Look! Everything is vanity and chasing wind.

¹⁶ _⌊I said to myself_⌋,* "Look! I have become great and have increased in wisdom more than anyone who _⌊has preceded_⌋* me over Jerusalem. _⌊I have acquired a great deal of wisdom and knowledge_⌋."*

¹⁸ For in much wisdom is much frustration,* and whoever increases knowledge increases sorrow.

¹⁶ Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in _⌊future generations_⌋.* When future days come, both will have been forgotten already. How is it that the wise man dies the same as the fool?

⁸ So do the wise really have an advantage over fools? _⌊Can the poor really gain anything by knowing how to act in front of others_⌋?*