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

¹⁰ For all can see that the wise die,^(A)
    that the foolish and the senseless^(B) also perish,
    leaving their wealth^(C) to others.^(D)