¹² For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his ^(A)vain^[a] life, which he passes like ^(B)a shadow? For who can tell man what will be ^(C)after him under the sun?

¹⁵ In my ^(A)vain^[a] life I have seen everything. There is ^(B)a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who ^(C)prolongs his life in his evildoing.