Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

There is

Ecclesiastes 1:11
There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.
Exodus 1:6
Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
Psalm 88:12
Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Psalm 103:16
For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
Malachi 3:16
Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

How

Ecclesiastes 6:8
For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
2 Samuel 3:33
The king lamented for Abner, and said, "Should Abner die as a fool dies?
Psalm 49:10
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Hebrews 9:27
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,