Ecclesiastes 11:8
For even if a man should live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
7Moreover the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
Cross References
Job 10:21before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;
Job 14:10But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.
Job 15:23And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcase: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.
Psalms 49:20Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalise thy mother's son.
Ecclesiastes 2:15And I said in my heart, As the event of the fool is, so shall it be to me, even to me; and to what purpose have I gained wisdom? I said moreover in my heart, This is also vanity, because the fool speaks of his abundance.
Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? and whether he will have power over all my labour in which I laboured, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? this is also vanity.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 11:8-10
A Caution to the Young; Exhortation to Early Piety. 7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: 8 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. 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into… Read the whole commentary →