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Ecclesiastes 2:16

Young's Literal Translation 1862

That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

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and the king lamenteth for Abner, and saith: -- `As the death of a fool doth Abner die?

For a wind hath passed over it, and it is not, And its place doth not discern it any more.

For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.

Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

And Joseph dieth, and all his brethren, and all that generation;

And there riseth a new king over Egypt, who hath not known Joseph,

The wisdom of the prudent `is' to understand his way, And the folly of fools `is' deceit.

There is not a remembrance of former `generations'; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.

The wise! -- his eyes `are' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is' vanity:

For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth `it' unto his heart.

And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also `is' vanity.

and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!

For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

Then have those fearing Jehovah spoken one to another, And Jehovah doth attend and hear, And written is a book of memorial before Him Of those fearing Jehovah, And of those esteeming His name.

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,




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