And who knows [whether] he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will exercise control of all [the fruit of] my toil with which I toiled wisely under the sun. This also [is] vanity!

So do the wise [really] have an advantage over fools? {Can the poor [really] gain anything by knowing how to act in front of others}?

So I said {to myself}, "{If I also suffer the same fate as the fool}, {what advantage is my great wisdom}?" So I said {to myself}, "This also [is] vanity!"

Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in {future generations}. When [future] days come, both will have been forgotten already. How [is it that] the wise man dies the same as the fool?

For he sees [that] the wise die, together [with the] fool and brute they perish, and leave their wealth to the next [generation].

Better to listen to [the] rebuke of [the] wise than for a man to listen to [the] song of fools.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

But the foolish [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the wise, and the weak [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the strong,

I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.