16 For there is no lasting memory for the wise or the fool,by which in the coming days everyone will be forgotten.How the wise dies just like the fool!
17 And I began to hate life for the labor that was done under the sun was contemptible to me, for all of this was vanity and chasing the wind.
18 And I despised all the toil in which I labored under the sun, which I will give up to the man who comes after me.
19 And who knows if this man will be wise or a fool? Yet he will gain power over every labor that I have toiled and my use of wisdom under the sun. Also this is vanity.
20 So I turned to give my heart up to despair concerning all the toil of my labors under the sun.
21 For there is a man who labors with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet to a man who did not labor for this, he leaves it as his inheritance. This also is vanity and a great distress.
22 For what becomes of a man with all his labor and with the striving in his heart that he toils under the sun?