Ecclesiastes 11:8

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Summary

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.

If a man

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Rejoice

Ecclesiastes 3:12

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Yet

All that

General references

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Bible References

If a man

Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good--do not all go to the one place?

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.

Rejoice

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;

Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.

And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

Yet

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, "I have no pleasure in them";

If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end!

the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness."

But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

They said to you, "In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions."

All that

I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself." But behold, this also was vanity.

one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.

The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man?

General references

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.