13. And I saw that wisdom has as much profit over folly as light has over darkness.
14. Wise people have eyes in their heads,but fools walk in darkness.Yet I knew that the same lot befalls both.
15. So I said in my heart, if the fool’s lot is to befall me also, why should I be wise? Where is the profit? And in my heart I decided that this too is vanity.
16. The wise person will have no more abiding remembrance than the fool; for in days to come both will have been forgotten. How is it that the wise person dies like the fool!
17. Therefore I detested life, since for me the work that is done under the sun is bad; for all is vanity and a chase after wind.
18. And I detested all the fruits of my toil under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who is to come after me.
19. And who knows whether that one will be wise or a fool? Yet that one will take control of all the fruits of my toil and wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.
20. So my heart turned to despair over all the fruits of my toil under the sun.