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Ecclesiastes 2:16 (KJV)

For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.

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Exodus 1:6 - And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
Exodus 1:8 - Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
2 Samuel 3:33 - And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
Psalms 49:10 - For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psalms 88:12 - Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Psalms 103:16 - For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Proverbs 14:8 - The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way: but the folly of fools [is] deceit.
Ecclesiastes 1:11 - [There is] no remembrance of former [things]; neither shall there be [any] remembrance of [things] that are to come with [those] that shall come after.
Ecclesiastes 2:14 - The wise man's eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes 6:8 - For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Ecclesiastes 9:5 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Malachi 3:16 - Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard [it], and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
Hebrews 9:27 - And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

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