11. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.
12. Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king’s successor do than what has already been done?
13. I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness.
14. The wise have eyes in their heads, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both.