¹⁶ For 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!

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.

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.

¹² Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

²⁷ And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this `cometh' judgment;

¹⁶ Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.

⁸ For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? `or' what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

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.

¹⁶ For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.

¹⁰ For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others.

³³ And the king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dieth?

⁸ Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

⁶ And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.