Ecclesiastes 11:8

Modern English Version

Even if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

Cross References

John 12:35

Then Jesus said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. He who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.

Deuteronomy 32:29

Would that they were wise, so that they understood this, so that they would comprehend their future!

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness. Like blackness spreading over the mountain, a great and mighty army comes, such as was never before, and will never be again, even through the years of all generations.

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 people may not find out anything that comes after them.

Jude 1:18

They said to you, “In the last days there will be scoffers who will walk after their own ungodly desires.”

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God, before He causes darkness and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I commend enjoyment, because there is nothing better for people under the sun than to eat and drink and enjoy life, for enjoyment will go with a person in his toil all the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Though one who sins may do evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they stand in reverence before Him.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

For when there are many debating words, there is more vanity. What is the benefit to a person?

Matthew 22:13

“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Though the man may live a thousand years twice over, yet does not enjoy the good things, do not all go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There was no limit to all the people, to all who were before him. But all those who were to come later would not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is a person who is alone, having neither son nor brother; there is not an end to all his toil, and his eyes are not satisfied with riches. He asks, “For whom do I labor and cause my life to lack good things?” This also is vanity and a burdensome task.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

To the person who is pleasing before Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the one who sins, He gives the task to gather and collect, to give to the other person who is pleasing before God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows if this man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will gain power over all for which I have toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I began to hate life, because the labor that was done under the sun was contemptible to me, for all of this is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then I said in my heart, “The same event that befalls the fool will also befall me. So to what advantage is my wisdom?” Then I said to myself, “This also is vanity.”

Job 18:18

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

Job 15:23

He wanders about 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 wastes away; yes, man gives up his breath, and where is he?

Job 10:22

a land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as thick darkness.”

Ecclesiastes 9:7

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

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give a portion to seven, or even eight, investments, for you do not know what calamity might occur on earth.

Job 10:21

before I go and do not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

Job 14:12

so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, he will not awake, nor be raised out of his sleep.

Psalm 49:20

A man who is in his splendor, yet without understanding, is like the animals that perish.