Ecclesiastes 11:8
But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming [is] vanity.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7Sweet also [is] the light, And good for the eyes to see the sun.
Cross References
Job 10:21Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
Job 14:10And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where [is] he?
Job 15:23He is wandering for bread — 'Where [is] it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
Psalms 49:20Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!
Ecclesiastes 2:15and I said in my heart, 'As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this [is] vanity:
Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also [is] 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 →