Ecclesiastes 11:10

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Remove vexation from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.

2 Timothy 2:22

So shun youthful passions and aim at righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight. Surely every man stands as a mere breath! Selah

Job 20:11

His bones are full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.

Job 13:26

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

Psalm 25:7

Remember not the sins of my youth, or my trangressions; according to thy steadfast love remember me, for thy goodness' sake, O Lord!

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Job 11:12

But a stupid man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.

Psalm 39:6

Surely man goes about as a shadow! Surely for naught are they in turmoil; man heaps up, and knows not who will gather!