Ecclesiastes 2:13-18

¹³Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

¹⁴The wise man, his eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness. And I also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

¹⁵Then said I in my heart: 'As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?' Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

¹⁶For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will long ago have been forgotten. And how must the wise man die even as the fool!

¹⁷So I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

¹⁸And I hated all my labour wherein I laboured under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.