Ecclesiastes 11:10
Drive anger away from your heart, 2 and ignore any pain in your body, 1 because youth and its strength are vapor.
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Job 13:26For you write down bitter things against me; 1 you make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. 1
Psalms 25:7Do not think about the sins of my youth or my rebelliousness; 1 Call me to mind with covenant faithfulness because of your goodness, Yahweh! 1
Psalms 39:6Surely every man walks about like a shadow. 1 Surely everyone hurries about 1 to accumulate riches although they do not know who will receive them. 1
Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, 1 but the rod of discipline drives it far away. 1
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the deeds that are done under the sun, and look, they all amount to vapor and chasing the wind. 1
2 Corinthians 7:1Loved ones, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves of everything that makes us unclean in our body and spirit. Let us pursue holiness in the fear of God.
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 →