Ecclesiastes 1:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

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

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

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

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

We know that 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.