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 if a man lives a thousand years twice, if he does not enjoy {prosperity}, {both suffer the same fate}!

Although the sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I also know that it will be good for those who fear God--because they fear {his presence}.

Rejoice

So I realized that there is {nothing better} for them than to {rejoice and enjoy themselves} during their lives.

Look! I have discovered what is good and fitting: to eat and to drink and {to enjoy} all [the fruit of] the toil with which one toils under the sun during the number of the days of his life that God gives to him--for this [is] his lot.

So I recommend enjoyment. For there [is] nothing better for man under the sun than to eat and to drink and to rejoice. This will accompany him in his toil the days of his life that God gives to him under the sun.

Yet

In the day of prosperity, rejoice! But in the day of adversity, consider! For God made one in place of another so that mortals cannot find out what will happen {in the future}.

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth-- before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them!"

If only they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern {for themselves their end}.

to [the] land of darkness, like [the] darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos}, so that it shines forth like darkness.'"

"But a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus a human being passes away, and where is he?

"He is wandering for bread, [saying], 'Where [is it]?' He knows that a day of darkness [is] ready {at hand}.

"They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from [the] world.

Give glory to Yahweh your God {before} he brings darkness, and {before} your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes [it] as thick darkness.

A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again {for generations to come}.

Then the king said to the servants, 'Tie him up {hand and foot} [and] throw him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!'

So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

for they said to you, "In the end time there will be scoffers following according to their own ungodly desires."

All that

I said {to myself}, "Come! I will test pleasure {to see whether it is worthwhile}." But look, "This also [is] vanity!"

Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business!

Just as he came from his mother's womb naked, {he will depart} just as he came; he will take nothing with him for his toil.

{Increasing words only multiplies futility}, how does that profit anyone?

General references

"Vanity of vanities!" says the Teacher, "Vanity of vanities! All [is] vanity!"