Ecclesiastes 11:8

A Conservative Version

Yea, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Cross References

John 12:35

Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while ye have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. And he who walks in the darkness knows not where he is going.

Deuteronomy 32:29

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spreads upon the mountains, a great people and a strong, there has not ever been the like, nor shall be any more after them, even to the years of man

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider. Yea, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

Jude 1:18

that they told you that there will be scoffers during the last time, going according to their own desires of irreverences.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Then I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be cheerful. For that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and prolongs his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

Since there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Matthew 22:13

Then the king said to the helpers, After binding him hands and feet, take him away and cast him out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Yea, though he lives a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoys no good, do not all go to one place?

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There was no end of all the people, even of all those over whom he was. Yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one man who is alone, and he has not a second, yea, he has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end of all his labor, nor are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [he says], do I labor, and deprive my soul of

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous to me. For all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it will happen even to me, and why then was I more wise? Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.

Job 18:18

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Job 15:23

He wanders abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Job 14:10

But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

Job 10:22

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God has already accepted thy works.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give a portion to seven, yea, even to eight, for thou know not what evil shall be upon the earth.

Job 10:21

before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,

Job 14:12

so man lays down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

Psalm 49:20

A man who is in splendor, and understands not, is like the beasts that perish.