Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless

Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,and also madness and folly. What more can the king's successor do than what has already been done? I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness. The wise man has eyes in his head, while the fool walks in darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both.

Then I thought in my heart, "The fate of the fool will overtake me also. What then do I gain by being wise?" I said in my heart,"This too is meaningless." For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered; in days to come both will be remembered; in days to come both will be forgotten. Like the fool, the wise man to will die! Ecclesiastes 2:12-16