¹² Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
    and also madness and folly.^(A)
What more can the king’s successor do
    than what has already been done?^(B)
13 I saw that wisdom^(C) is better than folly,^(D)
    just as light is better than darkness.
¹⁴ The wise have eyes in their heads,
    while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
    that the same fate overtakes them both.^(E)