¹¹ No one remembers the former generations,^(A)
    and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
    by those who follow them.^(B)

¹⁶ For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;^(A)
    the days have already come when both have been forgotten.^(B)
Like the fool, the wise too must die!^(C)

⁶ Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies,
    you have uprooted their cities;^(A)
    even the memory of them^(B) has perished.

⁵ For the living know that they will die,
    but the dead know nothing;^(A)
they have no further reward,
    and even their name^(B) is forgotten.^(C)

⁹ See, the former things^(A) have taken place,
    and new things I declare;
before they spring into being
    I announce^(B) them to you.”