Ecclesiastes 2:15-17

New Century Version

¹⁵ I thought to myself,
“What happens to a fool will happen to me, too,
    so what is the reward for being wise?”
I said to myself,
    “Being wise is also useless.”
¹⁶ The wise person and the fool
    will both die,
and no one will remember either one for long.
    In the future, both will be forgotten.