Ecclesiastes 2:11-17

¹¹and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

¹²And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what is the man who cometh after the king? that which is already — they have done it!

¹³And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

¹⁴The wise! — his eyes are in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

¹⁵and I said in my heart, 'As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this is vanity:

¹⁶That there is no remembrance to the wise — with the fool — to the age, for that which is already, in the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

¹⁷And I have hated life, for sad to me is the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit.