Ecclesiastes 2:16

New International Version

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!

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:33

The king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner have died as the lawless die?

Psalm 103:16

the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

Psalm 49:10

For all can see that the wise die, that the foolish and the senseless also perish, leaving their wealth to others.

Psalm 88:12

Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?

Exodus 1:6

Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,

Exodus 1:8

Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is deception.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

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

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise have eyes in their heads, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will overtake me also. What then do I gain by being wise?” I said to myself, “This too is meaningless.”

Ecclesiastes 6:8

What advantage have the wise over fools? What do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.

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 9:15

Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.

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.

Malachi 3:16

Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,