Ecclesiastes 2:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For of the wise man as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise man dies just like the fool!

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:33

And the king lamented for Abner, saying, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

Psalm 103:16

for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.

Psalm 49:10

Yea, he shall see that even the wise die, the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 88:12

Are thy wonders known in the darkness, or thy saving help in the land of forgetfulness?

Exodus 1:6

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

Exodus 1:8

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of a prudent man is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness; and yet I perceived that one fate comes to all of them.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then I said to myself, “What befalls the fool will befall me also; why then have I been so very wise?” And I said to myself that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself 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 this is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked buried; they used to go in and out of the holy place, and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

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

Malachi 3:16

Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another; the Lord heeded and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and thought on his name.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,