Ecclesiastes 11:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ Indeed, if someone lives for many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness,  since they will be many. All that comes is futile.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Yes, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all; yet let him [seriously] remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity (emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and futility)!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

Common English Bible

⁸ Even those who live many years should take pleasure in them all. But they should be mindful that there will also be many dark days. Everything that happens is pointless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ If a man lives for many years, and if he has rejoiced in all of these, he must remember the many days of the dark times, which, when they will have arrived, will accuse the past of vanity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ If a man live many years, and have rejoiced in them all, he must remember the darksome time, and the many days: which when they shall come, the things past shall be accused of vanity.

Ecclesiastes 11:8 Tagairtí Cros

Job 10:21

before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, never to return.

Job 10:22

It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like   the darkness.’

Job 14:10

But a person dies and fades away; he breathes his last #– #where is he?

Job 14:12

so people lie down never to rise again. They will not wake up until the heavens are no more; they will not stir from their sleep.

Job 15:23

He wanders about for food, asking, ‘Where is it? ’ He knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Job 18:18

He is driven from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give a portion to seven or even to eight, for you don’t know what disaster may happen on earth.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

So I said to myself, ‘What happens to the fool will also happen to me. Why then have I been overly wise? ’  And I said to myself that this is also futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool?  Yet he will take over all my work that I laboured at skilfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the person who is pleasing in his sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy;  but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight.  This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There is no limit to all the people who were before them, yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is a person without a companion,  without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches.  ‘Who am I struggling for,’ he asks, ‘and depriving myself of good things? ’ This too is futile and a miserable task.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

For when there are many words, they increase futility.  What is the advantage for mankind?

Ecclesiastes 6:6

And if a person lives for a thousand years twice, but does not experience happiness, do not both go to the same place?

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 no one can discover anything that will come after him.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life,  I also know that it will go well with God-fearing people,  for they are reverent before him.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I commended enjoyment because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat, drink, and enjoy himself,  for this will accompany him in his labour during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

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

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the  Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at dusk. You wait for light, but he brings darkest gloom and makes total darkness.

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and total darkness, like the dawn spreading over the mountains; a great and strong people   appears, such as never existed in ages past and never will again in all the generations to come.

Matthew 22:13

‘Then the king told the attendants, “Tie him up hand and foot,   and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

John 12:35

Jesus answered, ‘The light will be with you only a little longer.   Walk while you have the light   so that darkness doesn’t overtake you.   The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If only they were wise, they would comprehend this; they would understand their fate.

Jude 1:18

They told you, ‘In the end time  there will be scoffers  living according to their own ungodly desires.’