Ecclesiastes 2:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For of the wise man, the same as of the fool, there is no permanent remembrance, since in the days to come all will be long forgotten. And how does the wise man die? Even as the fool!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ 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 long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

Common English Bible

¹⁶ There is no eternal memory of the wise any more than the foolish, because everyone is forgotten before long. How can the wise die just like the fool?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ For there will not be a remembrance in perpetuity of the wise, nor of the foolish. And the future times will cover everything together, with oblivion. The learned die in a manner similar to the unlearned.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.

Ecclesiastes 2:16 Références croisées

2 Samuel 3:33

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

When we look at the wise, they die; fool and dolt perish together and leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 88:12

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

Exodus 1:6

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

Exodus 1:8

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

Proverbs 14:8

It is the wisdom of the clever to understand where they go, but the folly of fools misleads.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise have eyes in their head, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then I said to myself, “What happens to the fool will happen to 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 have the wise over fools? And what do the poor have who know how to conduct themselves 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 everyone, and the living will lay it to heart.

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 9:15

Now 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

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.

Malachi 3:16

Then those who revered the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord took note and listened, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who revered the Lord and thought on his name.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,