Ecclesiastes 2:17-19

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁷ So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.^[a]

¹⁸ I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to those who come after me ¹⁹ —and who knows whether they will be wise or foolish? Yet they will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.