Ecclesiastes 11:8

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

If a man live many years, and have rejoiced in them all, he must remember the darksome time, and the many days: which when they shall come, the things past shall be accused of vanity.

Cross References

John 12:35

Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while, the light is among you. Walk whilst you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not. And he that walketh in darkness, knoweth not whither he goeth.

Deuteronomy 32:29

O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end!

Joel 2:2

A day of darkness, and of gloominess, a day of clouds and whirlwinds: a numerous and strong people as the morning spread upon the mountains: the like to it hath not been from the beginning, nor shall be after it even to the years of generation and generation.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.

Jude 1:18

Who told you, that in the last time there should come mockers, walking according to their own desires in ungodlinesses.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. You shall look for light and he will turn it into the shadow of death and into darkness.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that fear God, who dread his face.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.

Matthew 22:13

Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?

Ecclesiastes 4:16

The number of the people, of all that were before him is infinite: and they that shall come afterwards, shall not rejoice in him: but this also is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain?

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.

Job 18:18

He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

Job 15:23

When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Job 14:10

But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

Job 10:22

A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

Job 10:21

Before I go, and return no more: to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:

Job 14:12

So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.

Psalm 49:20

Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son: