Ecclesiastes 2:16

WEB

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

KJV

¹⁶For 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.

BSB

¹⁶For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!

FBV

¹⁶Nobody remembers the wise or the fool for very long—in the future everything will be forgotten. Whether wise or foolish, they both die.

Extra References

Ecclesiastes 1:11

¹¹There 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 9:5

⁵For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

Malachi 3:16

¹⁶Then 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

²⁷Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Psalms 88:12

¹²Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Exodus 1:8

⁸Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

¹⁴The 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.

Psalms 103:16

¹⁶For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

Psalms 49:10

¹⁰For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Exodus 1:6

⁶Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.