Ecclesiastes 2:16

English Standard Version 2016

For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

Psalm 88:12

Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Exodus 1:8

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Malachi 3:16

Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.

Psalm 103:16

for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.

Psalm 49:10

For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.

2 Samuel 3:33

And the king lamented for Abner, saying, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

Exodus 1:6

Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.