Ecclesiastes 2:15-18

15Then I said in my heart, a“What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity. 16For of the wise as of the fool there is bno enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. cHow the wise dies just like the fool! 17So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for dall is vanity and a striving after wind.

The Vanity of Toil

18I hated eall my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must fleave it to the man who will come after me,
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