Ecclesiastes 1:11

Contemporary English Version 1995

No one who lived in the past is remembered anymore, and everyone yet to be born will be forgotten too.

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Wise or foolish, we all die and are soon forgotten.”

Our enemies are destroyed completely for all time. Their cities are torn down, and they will never be remembered again.

We know we will die, but the dead don't know a thing. Nothing good will happen to them—they are gone and forgotten.

Everything has happened just as I said it would; now I will announce what will happen next.

Someone might say, “Here is something new!” But it happened before, long before we were born.

I saw the wicked buried with honor, but God's people had to leave the holy city and were forgotten. None of this makes sense.