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Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 2:16 BSB

Ecclesiastes 2:16 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 1:11 (7 votes) and Ecclesiastes 9:5 (5 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Exodus 1 to Hebrews 9.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 2:16 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:117 votes

    There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

  2. Ecclesiastes 9:55 votes

    For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

  3. Exodus 1:83 votes

    Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

  4. Psalm 88:123 votes

    Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

  5. Malachi 3:163 votes

    At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.

  6. Hebrews 9:273 votes

    Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

  7. Exodus 1:62 votes

    Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,

  8. 2 Samuel 3:332 votes

    And the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?

  9. Psalm 49:102 votes

    For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.

  10. Psalm 103:162 votes

    when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

  11. Ecclesiastes 2:142 votes

    The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.

  12. Ecclesiastes 6:82 votes

    What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 2:16?

The 10 strongest of 17.