Ecclesiastes 2:12-14

Lexham English Bible

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.