Ecclesiastes 2:13-19

¹³And I thought, “Surely it is better to be wise than to be foolish, like light is better than darkness,

¹⁴because wise people walk in the daylight and IDM can see where they are going, but foolish people walk in the darkness and cannot see where they are going.” But I also realized that both wise people and foolish people eventually die.

¹⁵So I said to myself, “I am very wise, but I will die at the end of my life, like foolish people do. So ◄how has it benefited me to be very wise?/it certainly has not benefited me to be very wise RHQ►. I do not understand why people consider that it is valuable to be wise.

¹⁶Wise people and foolish people all die. And after we die, we will all eventually be forgotten DOU.”

¹⁷So I hated being alive, because everything that we do here on the earth MTY distresses me. It all seems to be useless like chasing the wind.

¹⁸I also began to hate all the hard work that I had done, because when I die, everything that I have acquired will belong to the next king.

¹⁹And ◄who/no one► knows RHQ whether he will be wise or whether he will be foolish. But even if he is foolish, he will acquire all the things that I worked very hard and wisely to get.