Ecclesiastes 2:16

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:33

And the king, mourning and lamenting Abner, said: "By no means has Abner died the way that cowards usually die.

Psalm 103:16

The trees of the field will be saturated, along with the cedars of Lebanon, which he planted.

Psalm 49:10

For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.

Psalm 88:12

Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness.

Exodus 1:6

When he had died, along with all of his brothers and all of that generation,

Exodus 1:8

Meanwhile, there arose a new king over Egypt, who was ignorant of Joseph.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of a discerning man is to understand his way. And the imprudence of the foolish is to be wandering astray.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of the former things. Indeed, neither shall there be any record of past things in the future, for those who will exist at the very end.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The eyes of a wise man are in his head. A foolish man walks in darkness. Yet I learned that one would pass away like the other.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

And I said in my heart: "If the death of both the foolish and myself will be one, how does it benefit me, if I have given myself more thoroughly to the work of wisdom?" And as I was speaking within my own mind, I perceived that this, too, is emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

What do the wise have which is more than the foolish? And what does the pauper have, except to continue on to that place, where there is life?

Ecclesiastes 7:2

A good name is better than precious ointments, and a day of death is better than a day of birth.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

I have seen the impious buried. These same, while they were still living, were in the holy place, and they were praised in the city as workers of justice. But this, too, is emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

And there was found within it, a poor and wise man, and he freed the city through his wisdom, and nothing was recorded afterward of that poor man.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they themselves will die, yet truly the dead know nothing anymore, nor do they have any recompense. For the memory of them is forgotten.

Malachi 3:16

Then those who fear the Lord spoke, each one with his neighbor. And the Lord paid attention and heeded. And a book of remembrance was written in his sight, for those who fear the Lord and for those who consider his name.

Hebrews 9:27

And in the same manner as it has been appointed for men to die one time, and after this, to be judged,