{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.

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.

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.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. {it is...: Heb. it is not}

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.

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

For he seeth {that} wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

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.

{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.

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this {is} also vanity.

For {there are} no bands in their death: but their strength {is} firm. {firm: Heb. fat}

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

For he seeth {that} wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also {is} vanity. {happeneth even...: Heb. happeneth to me, even to me}

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all {is} vanity.