Ecclesiastes 2:16

For 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!

Cross References (12)

  • Ecclesiastes 1:11 (7)

    There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after

  • Ecclesiastes 9:5 (5)

    For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of th

  • Malachi 3:16 (3)

    At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of reme

  • Psalms 88:12 (3)

    Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

  • Exodus 1:8 (3)

    Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

  • Hebrews 9:27 (3)

    Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

  • Exodus 1:6 (2)

    Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,

  • Ecclesiastes 6:8 (2)

    What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself b

  • Ecclesiastes 2:14 (2)

    The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes th

  • 2 Samuel 3:33 (2)

    And the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?

  • Psalms 49:10 (2)

    For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.

  • Psalms 103:16 (2)

    when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.