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Selected Verse: Ecclesiates 2:16 - Strong Concordance

Verse         Translation Text
Ec 2:16 Strong Concordance For there is no remembrance [02146] of the wise [02450] more than [05973] of the fool [03684] for ever [05769]; seeing that which now [03528] is in the days [03117] to come [0935] shall all be forgotten [07911]. And how dieth [04191] the wise [02450] man? as the fool [03684].
  King James 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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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
remembrance--a great aim of the worldly (Gen 11:4). The righteous alone attain it (Psa 112:6; Pro 10:7).

for ever--no perpetual memorial.

that which now is--MAURER, "In the days to come all things shall be now long ago forgotten."
 
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7 The memory [02143] of the just [06662] is blessed [01293]: but the name [08034] of the wicked [07563] shall rot [07537].
6 Surely he shall not be moved [04131] for ever [05769]: the righteous [06662] shall be in everlasting [05769] remembrance [02143].
4 And they said [0559], Go to [03051], let us build [01129] us a city [05892] and a tower [04026], whose top [07218] may reach unto heaven [08064]; and let us make [06213] us a name [08034], lest we be scattered abroad [06327] upon the face [06440] of the whole earth [0776].
3 And his second [04932], Chileab [03609], of Abigail [026] the wife [0802] of Nabal [05037] the Carmelite [03761]; and the third [07992], Absalom [053] the son [01121] of Maacah [04601] the daughter [01323] of Talmai [08526] king [04428] of Geshur [01650];
17 And they shall take up [05375] a lamentation [07015] for thee, and say [0559] to thee, How art thou destroyed [06], that wast inhabited [03427] of seafaring men [03220], the renowned [01984] city [05892], which wast strong [02389] in the sea [03220], she and her inhabitants [03427], which cause [05414] their terror [02851] to be on all that haunt [03427] it!
4 That thou shalt take up [05375] this proverb [04912] against the king [04428] of Babylon [0894], and say [0559], How hath the oppressor [05065] ceased [07673] ! the golden city [04062] ceased [07673] !
6 O thou enemy [0341], destructions [02723] are come to a perpetual [05331] end [08552]: and thou hast destroyed [05428] cities [06145] [05892]; their memorial [02143] is perished [06] with them [01992].
3 They are all gone aside [05493], they are all together [03162] become filthy [0444]: there is none that doeth [06213] good [02896], no, not one [0259].
6 He shall cause them that come [0935] of Jacob [03290] to take root [08327]: Israel [03478] shall blossom [06692] and bud [06524], and fill [04390] the face [06440] of the world [08398] with fruit [08570].
11 Their inward [07130] thought is, that their houses [01004] shall continue for ever [05769], and their dwelling [04908] places to all [01755] generations [01755]; they call [07121] their lands [0127] after their own names [08034].
18 Hast thou with him spread out [07554] the sky [07834], which is strong [02389], and as a molten [03332] looking glass [07209]?
26 They are passed away [02498] as [05973] the swift [016] ships [0591]: as the eagle [05404] that hasteth [02907] to the prey [0400].
11 Wisdom [02451] is good [02896] with an inheritance [05159]: and by it there is profit [03148] to them that see [07200] the sun [08121].
6 Also their love [0160], and their hatred [08135], and their envy [07068], is now [03528] perished [06]; neither have they any more a portion [02506] for ever [05769] in any thing that is done [06213] under the sun [08121].
11 There is no remembrance [02146] of former [07223] things; neither shall there be any remembrance [02146] of things that are to come [0314] with those that shall come after [0314].