Ecclesiastes 11:8 Cross References - MSTC

⁸ If a man live many years, and be glad in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, which shall be many: And when they come, all things shall be but vanity.

²⁹ I would they were wise, and understood this, and would consider their latter end.'

²² yea, into a land as dark as darkness itself, and into the shadow of death where is none order; but light there is as darkness."

¹⁰ But as for man; when he is dead, perished and consumed away, what becometh of him?

²³ When he goeth forth to get his living, he thinketh plainly, that the day of darkness is at hand.

¹⁸ he shall be driven from the light into darkness, and cast clean out of the world.

¹ Then said I thus in my heart, "Now go to, I will take mine ease and have good days." But lo, that was vanity also: ² insomuch that I said unto laughter, "Thou art mad," and to mirth, "What doest thou?" ³ So I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, to apply my mind unto wisdom, and to comprehend foolishness until the time that among all the things which are under the Sun, I might see what were best for men to do, so long as they live under heaven. ⁴ I made gorgeous fair works. I builded me houses, and planted vineyards. ⁵ I made me orchards and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all manner fruits. ⁶ I made pools of water, to water the green and fruitful trees withal. ⁷ I bought servants and maidens, and had a great household. As for cattle and sheep, I had more substance of them than all they that were before me in Jerusalem. ⁸ I gathered silver and gold together, even a treasure of kings and lands. I provided me singers and women which could play of instruments, to make man mirth and pastime. I gat me drinking cups also and glasses. ⁹ Shortly, I was greater and in more worship, than all my predecessors in Jerusalem. For wisdom remained with me: ¹⁰ And look whatsoever mine eyes desired, I let them have it: and wherein soever my heart delighted, or had any pleasure, I withheld it not from it. Thus my heart rejoiced in all that I did, and this I took for the portion of all my travail. ¹¹ But when I considered all the works that my hands had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therein: Lo, all was vanity and vexation of mind, and nothing of any value under the Sun.

¹⁵ Then thought I in my mind, "If it happeneth unto the fool as it doth unto me, what needeth me then to labour any more for wisdom?" So I confessed within my heart, that this also was but vanity.

¹⁷ Thus began I to be weary of my life, in so much that I could away with nothing that is done under the Sun, for all was but vanity and vexation of mind:

¹⁹ For who knoweth, whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? And yet shall he be lord of all my labours, which I with such wisdom have taken under the Sun. Is not this a vain thing?

²¹ Forsomuch as a man should weary himself with wisdom, with understanding and opportunity, and yet be fain to leave his labours unto another, that never sweat for them. This is also a vain thing and a great misery. ²² For what getteth a man of all the labor and travail of his mind, that he taketh under the Sun, ²³ but heaviness, sorrow and disquietness all the days of his life? Insomuch that his heart cannot rest in the night. Is not this also a vain thing?

²⁶ He giveth unto man, what it pleaseth him; whether it be wisdom, understanding, or gladness. But unto the sinner he giveth weariness and sorrow, that he may gather and heap together the thing, that afterward shall be given unto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vain thing, yea a very disquietness and vexation of mind.

¹² So I perceived, that in these things there is nothing better for a man, then to be merry and to do well so long as he liveth. ¹³ For all that a man eateth and drinketh, yea whatsoever a man enjoyeth of all his labor, the same is a gift of God.

⁸ There is one man, no more but himself alone, having neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of his careful travail, his eyes cannot be satisfied with riches. Yet, doth he not remember himself, and say, "For whom do I take such travail? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life?" This is also a vain and miserable thing.

¹⁶ As for the people that have been before him, and that come after him, they are innumerable: yet is not their joy the greater through him. This is also a vain thing and a vexation of mind.

¹⁵ Like as he came naked out of his mother's womb, so goeth he thither again, and carryeth nothing away with him of all his labour. ¹⁶ This is a miserable plague, that he shall go away even as he came. What helpeth him then, that he hath labored in the wind?

¹⁸ Therefore me think it a better and fairer thing, a man to eat and drink, and to be refreshed of all his labour that he taketh under the Sun all the days of his life which God giveth him: for this is his portion. ¹⁹ For unto whomsoever God giveth riches, goods and power, he giveth it him to enjoy it, to take it for his portion, and to be refreshed of his labour: this is now the gift of God. ²⁰ For he thinketh not much how long he shall live, forsomuch as God filleth his heart with gladness.

⁶ Yea, though he lived two thousand years, yet hath he no good life. Come not all to one place?

¹¹ Many things there be that increase vanity, and what hath a man else?

¹⁴ Use well the time of prosperity and remember the time of misfortune: For God maketh one by the other, so that a man can find nothing else.

¹² But though an evil person offend a hundredth times, and have a long life: yet am I sure, that it shall go well with them that fear God, because they have him before their eyes.

¹⁵ Therefore I commend gladness, because a man hath no better thing under the Sun, than to eat and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall he have of his labour all the days of his life, which God giveth him under the Sun.

¹ Remember thy maker in thy youth, before the days of adversity come, and or the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, "I have no pleasure in them"; ² before the sun, the light, the moon and stars be darkened, and or the clouds turn again after the rain; ³ when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and when the strong men shall bow themselves; when the millers stand still, because they be so few, and when the sight of the windows shall wax dim; ⁴ when the doors in the streets shall be shut, and when the voice of the miller shall be laid down; when men shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and when all the daughters of music shall be brought low; ⁵ When men shall fear in high places, and be afraid in the streets; when the Almond tree shall be despised, the grasshopper born out, and when great poverty shall break in; when man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.

¹⁶ Honour the LORD your God herein, or he take his light from you, and before your feet stumble in darkness at the hill: lest when ye look for the light, he turn it into the shadow and darkness of death.

² a dark and gloomy day, a cloudy and black day. As the morning is spread over the mountains, so it this populous and strong people: such as have not been since the beginning, neither shall be after them for evermore.

¹³ Then said the King to his ministers, 'Take and bind him hand and foot, and cast him into utter darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

³⁵ Then Jesus said unto them, "Yet a little while is the light with you: walk while ye have light, lest the darkness come on you. He that walketh in the dark, knoweth not whither he goeth.

¹⁸ how that they told you that there should be beguilers in the last time, which should walk after their own ungodly lusts.