The Pointlessness of Labor

¹⁸ Then I despised everything I had worked for on earth, that is, the things that I will leave to the person who will succeed me.

¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be wise or foolish? Either way, he will take possession of everything that I have done on earth, especially where I have excelled. This also is pointless.

²¹ For sometimes people who strive to obtain wisdom, knowledge, and equity leave everything as an inheritance to a person who never worked for it. This, too, is pointless and greatly troublesome.