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madness and folly

These words refer to foolish thinking and behavior, respectively. See Ecclesiastes 1:17.

For what more can the man who becomes the next king do than what the king has already done?

"For the next king who comes after the king can do nothing that a king before him has not already done."

the man who becomes the next king

"the next king who comes after me"