But a stupid person will get understanding, when a wild ass is born human.
Ecclesiastes 11:10 - New Revised Standard Version Banish anxiety from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore remove [the lusts that end in] sorrow and vexation from your heart and mind and put away evil from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity [transitory, idle, empty, and devoid of truth]. [II Cor. 7:1; II Tim. 2:22.] American Standard Version (1901) Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. Common English Bible Remove anxiety from your heart, banish pain from your body, because youth and the dawn of life are pointless too. Catholic Public Domain Version Remove anger from your heart, and set aside evil from your flesh. For youth and pleasure are empty. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Remove anger from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh. For youth and pleasure are vain. |
But a stupid person will get understanding, when a wild ass is born human.
For you write bitter things against me, and make me reap the iniquities of my youth.
Their bodies, once full of youth, will lie down in the dust with them.
Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for your goodness' sake, O Lord!
You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah
Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up, and do not know who will gather.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy, but the rod of discipline drives it far away.
I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun; and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.
Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.