Ecclesiastes 2:16

New American Bible - revised edition

The wise person will have no more abiding remembrance than the fool; for in days to come both will have been forgotten. How is it that the wise person dies like the fool!

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:33

And the king sang this lament over Abner: Should Abner have died like a fool?

Psalm 103:16

A wind sweeps over it and it is gone; its place knows it no more.

Psalm 49:10

Will he live on forever, then, and never see the Pit of Corruption?

Psalm 88:12

Is your mercy proclaimed in the grave, your faithfulness among those who have perished?

Exodus 1:6

Now Joseph and all his brothers and that whole generation died.

Exodus 1:8

Then a new king, who knew nothing of Joseph, rose to power in Egypt.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the shrewd enlightens their way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of past generations; nor will future generations be remembered by those who come after them. Twofold Introduction.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

Wise people have eyes in their heads, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I knew that the same lot befalls both.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

So I said in my heart, if the fool’s lot is to befall me also, why should I be wise? Where is the profit? And in my heart I decided that this too is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

What profit have the wise compared to fools, or what profit have the lowly in knowing how to conduct themselves in life?

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, For that is the end of every mortal, and the living should take it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Meanwhile I saw the wicked buried. They would come and go from the holy place. But those were forgotten in the city who had acted justly. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

But in the city lived a man who, though poor, was wise, and he delivered it through his wisdom. Yet no one remembered this poor man.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they are to die, but the dead no longer know anything. There is no further recompense for them, because all memory of them is lost.

Malachi 3:16

Then those who fear the Lord spoke with one another, and the Lord listened attentively; A record book was written before him of those who fear the Lord and esteem his name.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,