Ecclesiastes 2:16

Lighthouse Bible 2006

For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; for that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how does the wise man die? like the fool.

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:33

And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Did Abner die as a fool dies?

Psalm 103:16

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

Psalm 49:10

For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the stupid person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 88:12

Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Exodus 1:6

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

Exodus 1:8

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happens to them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, that knows to walk before the living?

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will keep it in his heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Malachi 3:16

Then those who feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD listened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for those who feared the LORD, and who thought upon his name.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this comes the judgment: