Ecclesiastes 2:15-17

Common English Bible

¹⁵ So I thought to myself, What happens to the fool will also happen to me. So why have I been so very wise? I said to myself, This too is pointless. ¹⁶ There is no eternal memory of the wise any more than the foolish,^[a] because everyone is forgotten before long. How can the wise die just like the fool? ¹⁷ So I hated life, because the things that happen under the sun were troublesome to me. Definitely, everything is pointless—just wind chasing.