Cross references

Ecclesiastes 2:12

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 BSB

Ecclesiastes 2:12 has 3 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 1:17 (8 votes) and Ecclesiastes 7:25 (5 votes). 8 other verses point back to it. It links with 3 other books, from 2 Chronicles 8 to Matthew 13.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 2:12 point to?

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  1. So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.

  2. I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

  3. What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 2:12?

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