Ecclesiastes 1:11

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

People don’t remember what happened long ago. In the future, they will not remember what is happening now. And later, other people will not remember what the people before them did.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:16

Whether people are wise or foolish, they will still die, and no one will remember either one of them forever. In the future, people will forget everything both of them did. So the two are really the same.

Psalm 9:6

The enemy is finished! You destroyed their cities. There is nothing left to remind us of them.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

The living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything. They have no more reward. People will soon forget them.

Isaiah 42:9

In the past, I told you what would happen, and it happened! Now I am telling you something new, and I am telling you now, before it happens.”

Ecclesiastes 1:10

Someone might say, “Look, this is new,” but that thing has always been here. It was here before we were.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

I also saw great and beautiful funerals for evil people. While the people were going home after the funeral services, they said good things about the evil people who had died. This happened even in the same towns where the evil people had done many bad things. This is senseless.