Ecclesiastes 11:8
If a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.
Deuteronomy 32:29
They fail to see why they were defeated. They cannot understand what happened.
Job 10:22
to the land of dark night, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.
Job 14:10
On the other hand man dies and is laid low. He breathes his last and is no more!
Job 15:23
He wanders about as food for vultures and he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
Job 18:18
He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with rejoicing. Consider goodness. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then I said in my heart: As it happens to the fool, so it will happen to me. Why have I been so wise? Then I said in my heart: This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
I hated life. Everything under the sun was evil to me. All is vanity and grasping for the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? But he will have power over all the work that I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This too is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:21-23
Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand. But one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man who is good, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy. But to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13
I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to rejoice and to do good works in life.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is a man who is by himself, without a companion. He is without son or brother. There is no end to all his work. He never has enough wealth. Nor is his eye satisfied with riches. He never asks: For whom do I labor and deprive myself of pleasure? This too is vanity and a terrible problem.
Ecclesiastes 4:16
There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them. Those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:15-16
We entered this world with nothing and naked and we will leave this world with nothing and naked.
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20
This is what I have seen. It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. He labors under the sun all the days of his life. For God gives this to him as his allotment (inheritance).
Ecclesiastes 6:6
Even though he lives a thousand years twice over, yet he has seen no good. Do not all go to one place?
Ecclesiastes 6:11
Seeing there is much that increases futility, what outcome is there for man?
Ecclesiastes 7:14
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider that God made one as well as the other, to the end that man should find nothing that comes after him.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and he lives a long life, yet I know that it will be well with those who respect (reverence) God and worship him.
Ecclesiastes 8:15
Then I commended enjoyment (pleasure), because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. That will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 12:1-5
Remember your Creator (Hebrew: Bara', plural, Creators denotes majesty) (Ge 1:26) in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near. You will say: I have no pleasure in them.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Jehovah your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You hope for light. He makes it into deep darkness and turns it into gloom.
Joel 2:2
It is a day of darkness and gloom! It is a day of clouds and thick darkness! The dawn spreads upon the mountains. This great and mighty people have never seen anything like this. Nor will it be like this again even to the years of many generations.
Matthew 22:13
The king gave orders for that person to be tied hand and foot and thrown outside into the dark. That is where people will cry and grind their teeth in pain.
John 12:35
Jesus said to them: The light will be with you for a little while. Walk while you have the light, that darkness does not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.
Jude 1:18
They said to you: In the last time there will be mockers (scoffers), walking after their own ungodly lusts.