Ecclesiastes 2:16
"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."
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- Ecclesiastes 1:11
"There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 9:5
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
Read in chapter → - Exodus 1:8
"Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph."
Read in chapter → - Malachi 3:16
"Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name."
Read in chapter → - Hebrews 9:27
"And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 88:12
"Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?"
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 6:8
"For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?"
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 3:33
"And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 49:10
"For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 2:14
"The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all."
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