translation.en: For who knoweth what is good for man in 'his' life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
translation.me: What nede is it to a man to seke grettere thingis than hym silf; sithen he knowith not, what schal bifalle to hym in his lijf, in the noumbre of daies of his pilgrimage, and in the tyme that passith as schadowe? ether who may schewe to hym, what thing vndur sunne schal come aftir hym?