But a witless man will gain understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being?
Ecclesiastes 11:10 - Tree of Life Version So banish anxiety from your heart and cast off distress from your body, for youth and prime of life are fleeting. 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 witless man will gain understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being?
For You write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
His bones were full of his youthful vigor but it will lie down with him in the dust.
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellion. According to Your mercy remember me, for the sake of Your goodness, Adonai.
“Let me know, Adonai, my end and what the number of my days is. Let me know how short-lived I am.
Behold, You made my days mere hand-breadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but a rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
I have seen all the deeds done under the sun; and behold, all is meaningless and chasing after the wind.
Futile! Futile! says Kohelet. Completely meaningless! Everything is futile!
So remember your Creator in the days of your youth: before the days of misery come, and years draw near when you will say: “I have no pleasure in them”—
Therefore, since we have these promises, loved ones, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Now flee from youthful desires; instead, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and shalom, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.