Ecclesiastes 2:12-23 - The Living Must Abandon The Work Of Their Hands To Others At Death
12 And I turned to see wisdom, madness, and folly: for what the man that shall come after the king? with those things they did already. 13 And I saw there is profit to wisdom more than to folly, as the excellence of the light above darkness.
14 The wise, his eyes in his head; and the foolish one goes in darkness: and I knew, I also, that one event will meet with them all. 15 And I said in my heart, As the event of the foolish one, also I, it will meet me; and wherefore then was I more wise? And I spake in my heart, This is also vanity. 16 For no remembrance for the wise with the foolish one forever, since in the days coming, all being forgotten. And how will the wise die? with the foolish one. 17 And I hated life, for evil to me the work done under the sun: for all vanity and striving of the spirit
18 And I hated all my labor I laboring under the sun: leaving it to the man who shall come after me. 19 And who shall know whether he shall be wise or foolish? And he shall have dominion over all my labor which I labored, and was wise under the sun. Also this is vanity. 20 And I turned about to let my heart despair for all the labor I labored under the sun. 21 For there is man his labor in wisdom, and in knowledge and in success; and to man not laboring in it he shall give his portion. Also this is vanity and much evil. 22 For what was to man in all his labor, and in the striving of his heart, he labored under the sun? 23 For all his days pains, and vexation, his labor; also in the night his heart rested not Also this it is vanity.