Ecclesiastes 11:8

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What does Ecclesiastes 11:8 mean?

Ecclesiastes 11:8 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 11:8

• John 12:35

  Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

• Deuteronomy 32:29

  O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

• Ecclesiastes 7:14

  In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

• Joel 2:2

  A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

• Job 14:10

  But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

• Ecclesiastes 12:1-5

  Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low; …

• Ecclesiastes 6:11

  Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

• Ecclesiastes 8:12

  Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

• Jude 1:18

  How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

• Ecclesiastes 8:15

  Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

• Jeremiah 13:16

  Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

• Ecclesiastes 6:6

  Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

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Context

• Ecclesiastes 11:7

  Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

• Ecclesiastes 11:8

  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.

• Ecclesiastes 11:9

  Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

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