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.