Ecclesiastes 2:16

The Scriptures 1998

For there is no more lasting remembrance of the wise than of the fool, since in the days to come all is forgotten. And how does a wise man die? With the fool!

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:33

And the sovereign sang a lament over Aḇ

Psalm 103:16

For the wind blows over it, and it is no more, And its place no longer remembers it.

Psalm 49:10

For he sees wise men die, The foolish and the ignorant both perish, And shall leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 88:12

Are Your wonders known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the land of no remembrance?

Exodus 1:6

And Yosĕ

Exodus 1:8

Then a new sovereign arose over Mitsrayim, who did not know Yosĕ

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the clever is to understand His way, But the folly of fools is deceit.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of former ones, nor is there any remembrance of those that are to come by those who come later on.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise one’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And I also knew that one event befalls them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

And I said in my heart, “As the event of the fool, even so it befalls me, and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart, “This also is futile.”

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what advantage has the wise over the fool? What advantage does the poor have who knows how to walk 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 that is the end of all men. And the living take it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

And so I saw the wrong ones buried, and they came and went from the place of set-apartness, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. That too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

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

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know naught, nor do they have any more reward, for their remembrance is forgotten.

Malachi 3:16

Then shall those who fear יהוה  speak to one another, and יהוה  listen and hear, and a book of remembrance be written before Him, of those who fear יהוה, and those who think upon His Name.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it awaits men to die once, and after this the judgment,