Ecclesiastes 1:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The people of long ago are not remembered, nor will there be any remembrance of people yet to come by those who come after them.

Cross References

Psalm 9:6

The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities you have rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.

Ecclesiastes 1:10

Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has already been in the ages before us.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked approaching to sacrifice; they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast in the city that they have done such things. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.

Isaiah 42:9

See, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them.