For indeed, I am on your side; I will turn to you, and you will be plowed and planted.

I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.

Yet when I reflected on everything I had accomplished and on all the effort that I had expended to accomplish it, I concluded: “All these achievements and possessions are ultimately profitless – like chasing the wind! There is nothing gained from them on earth.”

Next, I decided to consider wisdom, as well as foolish behavior and ideas. For what more can the king’s successor do than what the king has already done?