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The Living Must Abandon the Work of their Hands to Others at Death

12 Next, I considered wisdom, as well as delusion and folly. What can anyone do who will come after the king that has not already been done? 13 I realized that wisdom has an advantage over folly, just as light has an advantage over darkness. 14 The wise man can see where he is walking,[a] but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that both of them suffer the same fate. 15 So I said to myself,[b]If I also suffer the same fate as the fool,[c] what advantage is my great wisdom?”[d] So I said to myself,[e] “This also is vanity!”

16 Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in future generations.[f] When future days come, both will have been forgotten already. How is it that the wise man dies the same as the fool?

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Notas al pie

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:14 Literally “The eyes of the wise are in his head”
  2. Ecclesiastes 2:15 Literally “in my heart”
  3. Ecclesiastes 2:15 Literally “Just as the fate of the fool—so it will happen to me!”
  4. Ecclesiastes 2:15 Literally “why have I been so exceedingly wise?”
  5. Ecclesiastes 2:15 Literally “in my heart”
  6. Ecclesiastes 2:16 Literally “the futures”

12 My reflections then turned to wisdom, madness, and folly. What can the king’s heir do but what has already been done? 13 I saw that wisdom is more beneficial than folly, as light is more beneficial than darkness.

14 The wise have eyes in their head,
    but fools walk around in darkness.

But I also realized that the same fate happens to both of them. 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?

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Notas al pie

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:16 Or The wise and the foolish alike are never remembered.