10. And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour.
11. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do them; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
12. And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what shall the man do that cometh after the king? --that which hath already been done.
13. And I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as light excelleth darkness.
14. The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.
15. And I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool so will it happen even to me; and why was I then so wise? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
16. For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?
17. And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
18. And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.