Ecclesiastes 2:18
“If the whole earth is not worth the kingdom of heaven, surely he who has left a few fields leaves nothing, as it were; even if he has given up a house or much gold, he ought not to boast nor grow weary. Moreover, we should consider that if we do not relinquish these things for virtue's sake, we leave them behind later…”
Source: Septuagint
18And I hated the whole of my labor Which I took under the sun; Because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
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16For there is no remembrance of the wise man With the fool forever; Forasmuch as now in the coming days All things are forgotten: And how shall the wise man die with the fool?
17So I hated life; Because the work that was wrought under the sun Was evil before me: For all is vanity and waywardness of spirit.
— Ecclesiastes 2:18 —
19And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? And whether he will have power over all my labor In which I labored, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? This is also vanity.
20So I went about to dismiss from my heart All my labor wherein I had labored under the sun.