Ecclesiastes 2:16

Revised Version 1885

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been already forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of the former generations; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Psalm 88:12

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Exodus 1:8

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgement;

Malachi 3:16

Then they that feared the LORD spake one with another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

Psalm 103:16

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.

Psalm 49:10

For he seeth that wise men die, The fool and the brutish together perish, And leave their wealth to others.

2 Samuel 3:33

And the king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dieth?

Exodus 1:6

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

And withal I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: But the folly of fools is deceit.