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!

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.

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.

¹² Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

²⁷ and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,

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.

⁸ For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

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;

¹⁶ For a wind hath passed over it, and it is not, And its place doth not discern it any more.

¹⁰ For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.

³³ and the king lamenteth for Abner, and saith: -- `As the death of a fool doth Abner die?

⁸ And there riseth a new king over Egypt, who hath not known Joseph,

⁶ And Joseph dieth, and all his brethren, and all that generation;