Exodus 1:8

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.”

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 people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

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

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.

“ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

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

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

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.

“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.

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

God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

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

It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

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

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

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 prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

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 of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

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?

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

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

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

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.

“Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it.

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

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.