⁸ Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.^(A)

¹⁸ Then ‘a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.’^[a](A)

¹⁸ I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.^{(A) 19} And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish?^(B) Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.

¹⁵ Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.^(A)