“Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.