¹⁶ Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

¹¹ There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.

⁵ The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

¹² May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

²⁷ And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

¹⁶ Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name.

⁸ What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

¹⁴ The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

¹⁶ The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

¹⁰ For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

³³ And the king made a song of grief for Abner and said, Was the death of Abner to be like the death of a foolish man?

⁸ Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.

⁶ Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation.