Ecclesiastes 11:8

If a man lyueth many yeeris, and is glad in alle these, he owith to haue mynde of derk tyme, and of many daies; and whanne tho schulen come, thingis passid schulen be repreued of vanyte.

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In The King James Version

But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

In Context

7The liyt is sweet, and delitable to the iyen to se the sunne.

9Therfor, thou yonge man, be glad in thi yongthe, and thin herte be in good in the daies of thi yongthe, and go thou in the weies of thin herte, and in the biholdyng of thin iyen; and wite thou, that for alle these thingis God shal brynge thee in to doom.

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Cross References

Job 10:21bifor that Y go, and turne not ayen, to the derk lond, and hilid with the derknesse of deth, to the lond of wrecchidnesse and of derknessis;

Job 14:10But whanne a man is deed, and maad nakid, and wastid; Y preye, where is he?

Job 15:23Whanne he stirith hym to seke breed, he woot, that the dai of derknessis is maad redi in his hond.

Psalms 49:20Thou sittynge spakist ayens thi brother, and thou settidist sclaundir ayens the sone of thi modir;

Ecclesiastes 2:15And Y seide in myn herte, If o deth schal be bothe of the fool and of me, what profitith it to me, that Y yaf more bisynesse to wisdom? And Y spak with my soule, and perseyuede, that this also was vanyte.

Ecclesiastes 2:19whom Y knowe not, whether he schal be wijs ether a fool; and he schal be lord in my trauels, for whiche Y swatte greetli, and was bisi; and is ony thing so veyn?

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