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)

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

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)

¹² Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,
    or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?

⁸ What advantage have the wise over fools?^(A)
What do the poor gain
    by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?

¹⁶ the wind blows^(A) over it and it is gone,
    and its place^(B) remembers it no more.