Ecclesiastes 11:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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 judgment.

Rejoice

1 Kings 18:27

1 Kings 22:15

Luke 15:12

In thy youth

Ecclesiastes 12:1

1 Kings 18:12

Lamentations 3:27

In the sight

1 John 2:15

Know

General references

Romans 14:12

Bible References

Rejoice

And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

When he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, are we to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And in answer he said, Go up, and it will go well for you; and the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them.

In thy youth

Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.

It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.

In the sight

And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Know

I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.

God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.

Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:

And while he was talking about righteousness and self-control and the judging which was to come, Felix had great fear and said, Go away for the present, and when the right time comes I will send for you.

But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.

For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.

But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

And I saw the dead, great and small, taking their places before the high seat; and the books were open, and another book was open, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by the things which were in the books, even by their works.

General references

It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.

The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son;

So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.