⁸ For what advantage has the wise man ^(A)over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?

^14 (A)The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the ^(B)same event happens to all of them. ¹⁵ Then I said in my heart, ^(C)“What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity. ¹⁶ For of the wise as of the fool there is ^(D)no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. ^(E)How the wise dies just like the fool!

¹⁷ As for the rich in ^(A)this present age, charge them ^(B)not to be haughty, nor ^(C)to set their hopes on ^(D)the uncertainty of riches, but on God, ^(E)who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

⁶ And they were both ^(A)righteous before God, walking ^(B)blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.