Ecclesiastes 11:8
For even if a man should live many years, 1 And rejoice in them all; 1 Yet let him remember the days of darkness; 1 For they shall be many. 1 All that comes is vanity. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
7Moreover the light is sweet, 1 And it is good for the eyes to see the sun. 1
Cross References
Job 10:21Before I go whence I shall not return, 1 To a land of darkness and gloominess; 1
Job 14:10But a man that has died is utterly gone; 1 And when a mortal has fallen, he is no more. 1
Job 15:23And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; 1 And he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: 1 And a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind. 1
Psalms 49:20Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, 1 And didst scandalize thy mother’s son. 1
Ecclesiastes 2:15And I said in my heart, 1 As the event of the fool is, 1 So shall it be to me, even to me; 1 And to what purpose have I gained wisdom? 1 I said moreover in my heart, 1 This is also vanity, 1 Because the fool speaks of his abundance. 1
Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? 1 And whether he will have power over all my labor 1 In which I labored, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? 1 This is also vanity. 1
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 →