10. And everything that my eyes wanted I did not refuse them.And I did not withhold my heart from any selfish pleasure,for my heart was glad from all my efforts;and this was my reward for all my efforts.
11. Then I turned to all the work that my hands had designedand all the labor that I had toiled to make;and notice, all of it was vanity and chasing the wind.And there was no benefit under the sun.
12. So I turned to consider wisdom,the folly of ideas, and foolish behavior;for what else can a man do who comes after the king?Or what more than those have already done?
13. Then I saw that there is more benefit in wisdom than in foolishness,more benefit in light than in darkness.
14. A wise man has eyes in his head so he sees where he walks,but the fool continues in darkness.Yet I perceivedthat the same fate overtakes them all.
15. Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also.So to what advantage is my wisdom?”Then I said to myself,“This also is vanity.”
16. For there is no lasting memory for the wise or the fool,by which in the coming days everyone will be forgotten.How the wise dies just like the fool!
17. And I began to hate life for the labor that was done under the sun was contemptible to me, for all of this was vanity and chasing the wind.