Ecclesiastes 2:14-16

Common English Bible

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?