Ecclesiastes 11:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Indeed, if someone lives for many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness,  since they will be many. All that comes is futile.

Cross References

John 12:35

Jesus answered, ‘The light will be with you only a little longer.   Walk while you have the light   so that darkness doesn’t overtake you.   The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If only they were wise, they would comprehend this; they would understand their fate.

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and total darkness, like the dawn spreading over the mountains; a great and strong people   appears, such as never existed in ages past and never will again in all the generations to come.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful,  but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other,  so that no one can discover anything that will come after him.

Jude 1:18

They told you, ‘In the end time  there will be scoffers  living according to their own ungodly desires.’

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the  Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at dusk. You wait for light, but he brings darkest gloom and makes total darkness.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I commended enjoyment because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat, drink, and enjoy himself,  for this will accompany him in his labour during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life,  I also know that it will go well with God-fearing people,  for they are reverent before him.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

For when there are many words, they increase futility.  What is the advantage for mankind?

Matthew 22:13

‘Then the king told the attendants, “Tie him up hand and foot,   and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Ecclesiastes 6:6

And if a person lives for a thousand years twice, but does not experience happiness, do not both go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There is no limit to all the people who were before them, yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is a person without a companion,  without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches.  ‘Who am I struggling for,’ he asks, ‘and depriving myself of good things? ’ This too is futile and a miserable task.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the person who is pleasing in his sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy;  but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight.  This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool?  Yet he will take over all my work that I laboured at skilfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

So I said to myself, ‘What happens to the fool will also happen to me. Why then have I been overly wise? ’  And I said to myself that this is also futile.

Job 18:18

He is driven from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world.

Job 15:23

He wanders about for food, asking, ‘Where is it? ’ He knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Job 14:10

But a person dies and fades away; he breathes his last #– #where is he?

Job 10:22

It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like   the darkness.’

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your works.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give a portion to seven or even to eight, for you don’t know what disaster may happen on earth.

Job 10:21

before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, never to return.

Job 14:12

so people lie down never to rise again. They will not wake up until the heavens are no more; they will not stir from their sleep.