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14 Wise people see where they are going,
    but fools walk around in the dark.
Yet I saw that
    both wise and foolish people end the same way.

15 I thought to myself,
“What happens to a fool will happen to me, too,
    so what is the reward for being wise?”
I said to myself,
    “Being wise is also useless.”
16 The wise person and the fool
    will both die,
and no one will remember either one for long.
    In the future, both will be forgotten.

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14 The wise have eyes in their heads,
    while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
    that the same fate overtakes them both.(A)

15 Then I said to myself,

“The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
    What then do I gain by being wise?”(B)
I said to myself,
    “This too is meaningless.”
16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;(C)
    the days have already come when both have been forgotten.(D)
Like the fool, the wise too must die!(E)

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