Ecclesiastes 11:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.
  • 2 Pet 3:11-14 : 11 Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness, 12 Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat? 13 But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness. 14 For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.
  • Job 13:26 : 26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;
  • Job 20:11 : 11 His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.
  • Ps 25:7 : 7 Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath. 8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face. 9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath. 10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone. 11 Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
  • Eccl 12:1 : 1 Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

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    7 Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

    8 But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

    9 Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

  • Eccl 12:1-2
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    1 Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

    2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

  • Eccl 2:1
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    1 I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.

  • Eccl 9:9-10
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    9 Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

    10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

  • Prov 5:11
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    11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

  • Eccl 7:2-4
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    2 It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

    3 Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

    4 The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.

  • Job 11:14-17
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    14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

    15 Then truly your face will be lifted up, with no mark of sin, and you will be fixed in your place without fear:

    16 For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

    17 And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

  • Eccl 2:22-23
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    22 What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

    23 All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

  • Prov 14:13
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    13 Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12 I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

  • Eccl 6:9
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    9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

  • Job 20:11
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    11 His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

  • Prov 15:13
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    13 A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

  • Eccl 8:15
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    15 So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

  • Eccl 7:17
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    17 Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?

  • Eccl 2:17
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    17 So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

  • Eccl 8:10-11
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    10 And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

    11 Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8 All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

  • Eccl 2:10-11
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    10 And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.

    11 Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

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    27 It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.

  • Eccl 7:14
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    14 In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3 This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

  • Eccl 7:10
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    10 Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.

  • Eccl 2:20
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    20 So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.

  • Prov 5:18
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    18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

  • Eccl 9:7
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    7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

  • Eccl 2:26
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    26 To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

  • Prov 17:22
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    22 A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

  • Job 33:25
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    25 Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength;

  • Jas 4:9
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    9 Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22 So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

  • Job 5:27
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    27 See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.

  • Eccl 1:17
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    17 And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

  • Eccl 2:3
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    3 I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.

  • Job 17:11
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    11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

  • Eccl 2:15
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    15 Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.