Ecclesiastes 2:16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁶ For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

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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.

Ecclesiastes 2:16 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 3:33

The king lamented for Aviner, and said, Should Aviner die as a fool dies?

Psalm 103:16

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

Psalm 49:10

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 88:12

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Exodus 1:6

Yosef died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

Exodus 1:8

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Yosef.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

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

Ecclesiastes 2:14

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

Ecclesiastes 2:15

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

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that 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 should take this to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:15

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

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Malachi 3:16

Then those who feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared the LORD, and who honored his name.

Hebrews 9:27

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,