In life and death, their will always be something and someone to serve. It is a fool who thinks that he will one day sit at the top and reign above all. Whether it is for riches, fame or authority, only a fool pursues those things for the sake of those thins alone. Their presence can correlate to wisdom but it does not create it. Likewise God places those things on the wise and foolish. They are the same as his rain, here today and gone tomorrow upon the heads of the wicked and the just. Additionally, In many places the scripture warns of wanting to be a leader. The truth is that the payoff of leadership comes at the price of proper usage of that leadership. As Solomon was king, he knew this first hand. He saw the burden of a man who had only God to answer for, but had everybody relying on his every word. To Solomon, this is an unenviable position. If these things fall upon you, then you must do right by them. This means ruling with a just hand. It means ruling as you reasonably believe that God would do. But if you don’t have that power, fame or fortune, do not envy it either. Do not make decisions that compromise your godly nature in order to attain these things. You will not respect them in the end, and they will destroy you.