Study it in the app“For there is no remembrance of the wise man as with the senseless forever, since already in the days to come everything will be forgotten. And how the wise man dies just like the senseless!”
Forכִּיthere is noאֵיןremembranceזִכְרוֹןof the wise manלֶחָכָםas with the senselessעִם הַכְּסִילforever,לְעוֹלָםsinceבְּשֶׁalreadyכְּבָרin the daysהַיָּמִיםto comeהַבָּאִיםeverythingהַכֹּלwill be forgotten.נִשְׁכָּחAnd howוְאֵיךְthe wise manהֶחָכָםdiesיָמוּתjust likeעִםthe senseless!הַכְּסִיל
memorial
Memorial: something done or kept in order to remember.
Where else “zichron” appearswise
Someone who knows how to live well, revering YHWH.
Where else “chacham” appearssenseless, fool
Fool: not someone who knows little, but someone who despises wisdom and trusts in himself.
Where else “kesil” appearsforever
Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.
Where else “olam” appearsalready, long ago
Already; long ago, formerly.
Where else “kevar” appearstime
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yamim” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “baim” appearsforget
Forget.
Where else “nishkach” appearsdie
To cease living; also, one who has ceased living.
Where else “yamut” appears15And I said in my heart, “As the fate of the senseless, so it will befall me too; and why then have I been overly wise?” And I said in my heart that this too was vapor.
16 · This verse (above)
17And I hated life, for the work that is done under the sun was bad to me, for all is vapor and striving after wind.
