Ecclesiastes 2:12-23 - The Living Must Abandon The Work Of Their Hands To Others At Death
12 I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What can the man do that comes after the king? Only what he has already done. 13 Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways just as the light is better than the dark.
14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man walks in darkness. Yet I saw that the same event happens to them all. 15 Then I said in my heart: As it happens to the fool, so it will happen to me. Why have I been so wise? Then I said in my heart: This also is vanity. 16 Neither the wise man nor the foolish man will be remembered for long. All that now is will be forgotten in the days to come. Death comes to both the wise and the foolish. 17 I hated life. Everything under the sun was evil to me. All is vanity and grasping for the wind.
18 I hated all the work I had done under the sun, because I would leave it behind for the man who comes after me. 19 Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? But he will have power over all the work that I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This too is vanity. 20 My heart turned to grief over all for which I had labored and all my wisdom under the sun. 21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand. But one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This also is vanity and a great evil. 22 What does a man get for all his work, and for the desire of his heart with which he has done his work under the sun? 23 All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is vanity.