Ecclesiastes 2:18-20

New Century Version

¹⁸ I hated all the things I had worked for here on earth, because I must leave them to someone who will live after me. ¹⁹ Someone else will control everything for which I worked so hard here on earth, and I don’t know if he will be wise or foolish. This is also useless. ²⁰ So I became sad about all the hard work I had done here on earth.