Ecclesiastes 1:11

New International Version

No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

Cross References

Psalm 9:6

Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.

Ecclesiastes 1:10

Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered; the days have already come when both have been forgotten. Like the fool, the wise too must die!

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then too, I saw the wicked buried—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.

Isaiah 42:9

See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you.”