10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
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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.
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.
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-13)Solomon, in the beginning of the chapter, had warned us against having any thing to do with seditious subjects; here, in these verses, he encourages us, in reference to the mischief of tyrannical and oppressive rulers, such as he had complained of before, Eccl. 3:16 ; 4:1 . 1. He had observed many such rulers, Eccl. 8:9. In the serious views and reviews he had taken of the children of men and thei…
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