The Emptiness of Work

¹⁸ I hated all my work that I labored at under the sun^(A) because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.^{(B) 19} And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool?^(C) Yet he will take over all my work that I labored at skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

²⁰ “But God said to him, ‘You fool!^(A) This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared—whose will they be?’^(B)

³¹ and those who use the world as though they did not make full use of it. For this world in its current form is passing away.^(A)