{The wise man can see where he is walking}, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that both of them suffer the same fate.

Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in {future generations}. When [future] days come, both will have been forgotten already. How [is it that] the wise man dies the same as the fool?

For the fate of {humans} and the fate of the beast is {the same}. The death of the one is like the death of the other, for {both are mortal}. Man has no advantage over the beast, for both are fleeting.

Both go to one place--both came from dust and both return to dust.

But better [off] than both of them is the one who has not yet been born and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Even if a man lives a thousand years twice, if he does not enjoy {prosperity}, {both suffer the same fate}!

[It is] good to take hold of the one and also must not let go of the other; for whoever fears God will hold both of them secure.

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not let your hands rest in the evening, for you do not know what will prosper-- whether this or that, or whether both of them alike will succeed.