Ecclesiastes 2:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶ No one remembers the wise, and no one remembers fools. In days to come, we will all be forgotten. We must all die—wise and foolish alike. ¹⁷ So life came to mean nothing to me, because everything in it had brought me nothing but trouble. It had all been useless; I had been chasing the wind.

¹⁸ Nothing that I had worked for and earned meant a thing to me, because I knew that I would have to leave it to my successor,