Ecclesiastes 11:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

Cross References

Job 10:21

Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

Job 10:22

A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

Job 14:10

But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

Job 14:12

So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

Job 15:23

He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

Job 18:18

He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

Psalm 49:20

Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

To the man with whom he is pleased, 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 in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

Ecclesiastes 6:6

And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

Joel 2:2

For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

Matthew 22:13

Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

John 12:35

Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!

Jude 1:18

How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.