Ecclesiastes 2:16
That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!
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- Eccl 1:11 : 11 There is not a remembrance of former `generations'; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.
- Eccl 9:5 : 5 For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.
- Ps 88:12 : 12 Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
- Ps 103:16 : 16 For a wind hath passed over it, and it is not, And its place doth not discern it any more.
- Eccl 2:14 : 14 The wise! -- his eyes `are' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;
- Eccl 6:8 : 8 For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?
- Exod 1:6 : 6 And Joseph dieth, and all his brethren, and all that generation;
- Exod 1:8 : 8 And there riseth a new king over Egypt, who hath not known Joseph,
- 2 Sam 3:33 : 33 and the king lamenteth for Abner, and saith: -- `As the death of a fool doth Abner die?
- Ps 49:10 : 10 For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.
- Mal 3:16 : 16 Then have those fearing Jehovah spoken one to another, And Jehovah doth attend and hear, And written is a book of memorial before Him Of those fearing Jehovah, And of those esteeming His name.
- Heb 9:27 : 27 and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,
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- Eccl 2:11-155 verses84%
11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!
12And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what `is' the man who cometh after the king? that which `is' already -- they have done it!
13And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.
14The wise! -- his eyes `are' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;
15and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is' vanity:
- Eccl 2:17-226 verses81%
17And I have hated life, for sad to me `is' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.
18And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.
19And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is' vanity.
20And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.
21For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.
22For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?
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8For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?
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10For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.
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11There is not a remembrance of former `generations'; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.
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16there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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5For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.
- Eccl 8:16-172 verses76%
16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),
17then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.
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14And the fool multiplieth words: `Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'
- Eccl 6:11-122 verses76%
11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?
12For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?
- Eccl 3:19-202 verses75%
19For an event `is to' the sons of man, and an event `is to' the beasts, even one event `is' to them; as the death of this, so `is' the death of that; and one spirit `is' to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole `is' vanity.
20The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.
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10And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also `is' vanity.
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8Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.
- Eccl 1:17-182 verses74%
17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;
18for, in abundance of wisdom `is' abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'
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4The heart of the wise `is' in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.
- Eccl 9:15-162 verses74%
15and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!
16And I said, `Better `is' wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' --
- Eccl 1:2-32 verses74%
2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is' vanity.
3What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?
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15The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.
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8But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming `is' vanity.
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6And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?
- Eccl 4:2-32 verses73%
2And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.
3And better than both of them `is' he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.
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3This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.
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16Why `is' this -- a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?
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1But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.
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7For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?
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3And also, when he that is a fool Is walking in the way, his heart is lacking, And he hath said to every one, `He `is' a fool.'
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6For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So `is' the laughter of a fool, even this `is' vanity.
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2Of laughter I said, `Foolish!' and of mirth, `What `is' this it is doing?'
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13This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.
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10Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.
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20and again, `The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'
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16And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?
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22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?
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12Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!