Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.(Ecclesiastes 2:13)

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.(Ecclesiastes 2:14)

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.(Ecclesiastes 2:15)

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.

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.(Ecclesiastes 2:17)

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.(Ecclesiastes 2:18)

And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.(Ecclesiastes 2:19)

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Ecclesiastes 2:16 - Cross Reference

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27)

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. (Exodus 1:8)

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. (Ecclesiastes 1:11)

Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. (Malachi 3:16)

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. (Exodus 1:6)

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? (Psalm 88:12)

For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. (Psalm 49:10)

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? (Ecclesiastes 6:8)

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. (Psalm 103:16)

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. (Ecclesiastes 9:5)

And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? (2 Samuel 3:33)

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. (Ecclesiastes 2:14)