Ecclesiastes 2:11-16

New International Version

¹¹ Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
    and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;^(A)
    nothing was gained under the sun.^(B)

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