16 For there is (A)no [a]lasting remembrance of the wise, along with the fool, since in the coming days everything will [b]soon be forgotten. And (B)how the wise and the fool alike die!

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:16 Lit forever
  2. Ecclesiastes 2:16 Lit already

16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;(A)
    the days have already come when both have been forgotten.(B)
Like the fool, the wise too must die!(C)

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For the living know that they will die; but the dead (A)do not know anything, nor do they have a reward any longer, for their (B)memory is forgotten.

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For the living know that they will die,
    but the dead know nothing;(A)
they have no further reward,
    and even their name(B) is forgotten.(C)

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