Chapter 2 verse 18 and so I hated all…
Chapter 2 verse 18 and so I hated all my labor for which I labored under the sun I will have to leave it to the one who will be my successor. What this is saying is that after I finish someone is going to plant the tree on my grave but will probably not learn from my mistakes. And on the contrary he may make things worse by ruining what is left.
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Ecclesiastes by King Solomon
In the book
He admitted the part we least want to hear — that the race is not always won by the swift, nor the battle by the strong, nor bread by the wise, for time and chance happen to them all, and that in the end the same fate befalls everyone alike, the righteous and the wicked together. He had watched good people perish in their goodness and bad ones prosper for years; he watched a man labor his whole life only to hand the results to a successor he never chose, and caught the smaller daily ironies too — that the laborer sleeps sweetly whether he eats little or much, while the very abundance of the rich man will not let him rest. Even the wisdom we inherit was carried down out of chaos, each generation's teaching first set down in the turbulence of its own age. — Takeoff Into Chaos