Ecclesiastes 2:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been already forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For of the wise man, the same as of the fool, there is no permanent remembrance, since in the days to come all will be long forgotten. And how does the wise man die? Even as the fool!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

Common English Bible

¹⁶ There is no eternal memory of the wise any more than the foolish, because everyone is forgotten before long. How can the wise die just like the fool?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ For there will not be a remembrance in perpetuity of the wise, nor of the foolish. And the future times will cover everything together, with oblivion. The learned die in a manner similar to the unlearned.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.

Ecclesiastes 2:16 Cross References

2 Samuel 3:33

And the king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dieth?

Psalm 103:16

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.

Psalm 49:10

For he seeth that wise men die, The fool and the brutish together perish, And leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 88:12

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Exodus 1:6

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

Exodus 1:8

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: But the folly of fools is deceit.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of the former generations; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

And withal I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Malachi 3:16

Then they that feared the LORD spake one with another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgement;