Ecclesiastes 2:16

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

The king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers,

until there arose a different king, who didn’t know Joseph.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.

The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.

The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”

The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity.

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.