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Ecclesiastes 2:15

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 15 Then I said in my heart: “What happens to the stupid one will also happen to me.”+ What, then, did I gain by becoming excessively wise? So I said in my heart: “This too is futility.”

Ecclesiastes 2:15

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 15 Then I said in my heart: “What happens to the stupid one will also happen to me.”+ What, then, did I gain by becoming excessively wise? So I said in my heart: “This too is futility.”

Ecclesiastes 2:15

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 15 And I myself said in my heart:+ “An eventuality like that upon the stupid one+ will eventuate to me, yes, me.”+ Why, then, had I become wise, I overmuch so+ at that time? And I spoke in my heart: “This too is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 2:15

The Bible in Living English
- 15 And I thought to myself “A fate like the fool’s will befall me also, and then what was I wiser for?” and I said to myself that this too was nonsense,

Ecclesiastes 2:15

The Emphasized Bible
- 15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the dullard even to me will it happen, but wherefore then became I wise to excess? Therefore spake I in my heart, Even this is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

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