13. And I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as light excelleth darkness.
14. The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.
15. And I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool so will it happen even to me; and why was I then so wise? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
16. For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?
17. And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
18. And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
19. And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
20. Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.