Ecclesiastes 2:16
Ecclesiastes chapter 2 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For 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!
KJV
King James Version · 1611For 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For 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!
Context
v.15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth 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.
v.16This passage
v.17So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
- Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.
- Exodus 1:8
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.
- Ecclesiastes 1:11
There is no remembrance of the former generations; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after.
- Psalms 103:16
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.
- Exodus 1:6
And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.