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!
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Psalm 49:10
For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.

Ecclesiastes 1:11
There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.

Ecclesiastes 2:15
So I said to myself, "The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?" And I said to myself that this too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:10
Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who had come and gone from the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 9:15
Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

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Ecclesiastes 1:11
There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

Exodus 1:6, 8
Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, . . .

Psalm 88:12
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

Psalm 103:16
when the wind has passed over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

Malachi 3:16
At that time, those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.

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Ecclesiastes 6:8
What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?

2 Samuel 3:33
And the king sang this lament for Abner: "Should Abner die the death of a fool?

Psalm 49:10
For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.

Hebrews 9:27
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

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