Ecclesiastes 2:15-17

Lexham English Bible

¹⁵ So I said to myself,^[a] “If I also suffer the same fate as the fool,^[b] what advantage is my great wisdom?”^[c] So I said to myself,^[d] “This also is vanity!”

¹⁶ Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in future generations.^[e] When future days come, both will have been forgotten already. How is it that the wise man dies the same as the fool? ¹⁷ So I hated life because the work done under the sun is grievous to me. For everything is vanity and chasing wind!