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As the cloud fades and vanishes,
    so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;(A)

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As a cloud vanishes(A) and is gone,
    so one who goes down to the grave(B) does not return.(C)

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16 For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?

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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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The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.(A)

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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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14 Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(A)

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14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(A)

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