Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Ecclesiastes 2:16
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Ecclesiastes2:16
16. remembrance--a great aim of the worldly (Ge 11:4). The righteous alone attain it (Psa 112:6; Pr 10:7).
for ever--no perpetual memorial.
that which now is--Maurer, "In the days to come all things shall be now long ago forgotten."
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