2:14 The wise man can see where he is going, ¹  but the fool walks in darkness.

Yet I also realized that the same fate ²  happens to them both. ³ 

2:15 So I thought to myself, “The fate of the fool will happen even to me! ⁴ 

Then what did I gain by becoming so excessively ⁵  wise?” ⁶ 

So I lamented to myself, ⁷ 

“The benefits of wisdom ⁸  are ultimately ⁹  meaningless!”

3:19 By the sweat of your brow ¹  you will eat food

until you return to the ground, ² 

for out of it you were taken;

for you are dust, and to dust you will return.” ³