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

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10 Then too, I saw the wicked buried(A)—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise[a] in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:10 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (Aquila); most Hebrew manuscripts and are forgotten

12 I am forgotten as though I were dead;(A)
    I have become like broken pottery.

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I am set apart with the dead,
    like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
    who are cut off(A) from your care.

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

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14 They are now dead,(A) they live no more;
    their spirits(B) do not rise.
You punished them and brought them to ruin;(C)
    you wiped out all memory of them.(D)

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