Ecclesiastes 11:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For 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

Job 10:21

before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,

Job 10:22

the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness.”

Job 14:10

But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

Job 14:12

so man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake, or be roused out of his sleep.

Job 15:23

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

Job 18:18

He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

Psalm 49:20

Man cannot abide in his pomp, he is like the beasts that perish.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what evil may happen on earth.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then I said to myself, “What befalls the fool will befall me also; why then have I been so very wise?” And I said to myself that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

there was no end of all the people; he was over all of them. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better?

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Even though he should live a thousand years twice told, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place?

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him;

Ecclesiastes 8:15

And I commend enjoyment, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and enjoy himself, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of life which God gives him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

Matthew 22:13

Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.’

John 12:35

Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, lest the darkness overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end!

Jude 1:18

they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”