¹⁶ For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

¹¹ There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

⁵ For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

¹² Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

²⁷ Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

¹⁶ Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

⁸ For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

¹⁴ The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

¹⁰ For he sees that wise men die; Likewise the fool and the senseless perish, And leave their wealth to others.

³³ The king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dies?

⁸ Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph.

⁶ Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.