18. Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,
19. Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain?
20. Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun.
21. For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.
22. For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun?