11 But when I turned to all the works that my hands had wrought, and to the fruit of the toil for which I had toiled so much, see! all was vanity and a chase after wind. There is no profit under the sun.
12 What about one who succeeds a king? He can do only what has already been done. I went on to the consideration of wisdom, madness and folly.
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.