Ecclesiastes 11:10
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for youth and folly are vanity.
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Job 13:26for you have written evil things against me, and you have compassed me with the sins of my youth.
Psalms 25:7to hear the voice of praise, and to declare all your wonderful works. 1
Psalms 39:6+ 39:6 Heb 10:5-6 Sacrifice and offering you would not; but a body have you prepared me: whole burnt offering and sacrifice for sin you did not require. 1
Proverbs 22:15Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are then far from him.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I saw all the works that were done under the sun; and, behold, all were vanity and waywardness of spirit.
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 →