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Ecclesiastes 2:16-20 Good News Bible (GNB)

16. No one remembers the wise, and no one remembers fools. In days to come, we will all be forgotten. We must all die — wise and foolish alike.

17. So life came to mean nothing to me, because everything in it had brought me nothing but trouble. It had all been useless; I had been chasing the wind.

18. Nothing that I had worked for and earned meant a thing to me, because I knew that I would have to leave it to my successor,

19. and he might be wise, or he might be foolish — who knows? Yet he will own everything I have worked for, everything my wisdom has earned for me in this world. It is all useless.

20. So I came to regret that I had worked so hard.

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