Ecclesiastes 11:10
Put away displeasure out of thine heart, and remoue euill from thy body: for chyldhood and youth is but vanitie.
Put away displeasure out of thine heart, and remoue euill from thy body: for chyldhood and youth is but vanitie.
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7 The light is sweete, and a pleasaunt thing is it for the eyes to looke vpon the sunne.
8 If a man lyue many yeres, and be glad in them all, let hym remember the dayes of darknesse whiche shalbe manye, and that foloweth: Al thinges shalbe but vanitie.
9 Be glad then (O thou young man) in thy youth, and let thy heart be merie in thy young dayes, folowe the wayes of thyne owne heart, and the lust of thyne eyes, but be thou sure that God shall bryng thee into iudgement for all these thinges.
1 Remember thy maker the sooner in thy youth, or euer the dayes of aduersitie come, and or the yeres drawe nye when thou shalt say, I haue not pleasure in them:
2 Before the sunne, the light, the moone, and starres be darkened, and or the cloudes turne agayne after the rayne:
1 Then sayde I thus in my heart: Nowe go to, I will take myne ease, and haue good dayes: But lo, that is vanitie also.
9 Use thy selfe to liue ioyfully with thy wife whom thou louest all the dayes of thy life whiche is but vayne, that God geueth thee vnder the sunne all the dayes of thy vanitie: for that is thy portion in this life of al thy labour and trauayle that thou takest vnder the sunne.
10 Whatsoeuer thou takest in hande to do, that do with al thy power: for in the graue that thou goest vnto, there is neither worke, counsayle, knowledge, nor wysdome.
11 Yea, that thou mourne not at the last, when thou hast spent thy bodye and lustie youth, and then say:
2 It is better to go into an house of mourning, then into a banketting house: For there is the ende of all men, and he that is liuing taketh it to heart.
3 Grauitie is better then to laugh: for when the countenaunce is heauie, the heart is refourmed.
4 The heart of the wise is in the mourning house: but the heart of the foolishe is in the house of myrth.
14 If thou wouldest put away the wickednes whiche thou hast in hande, so that no vngodlinesse dwell in thy house:
15 Then mightest thou lift vp thy face without shame, & then shouldest thou be sure and haue no neede to feare.
16 Then shouldest thou forget thy miserie, and thinke no more vpon it, then vpon the waters that runne by.
17 Then should thy lyfe be as cleare as the noone day, thou shouldest shine forth, and be as the morning.
22 For what getteth a man of all the labour and trauayle of his mynde that he taketh vnder the sunne?
23 But heauinesse, sorowe, and disquietnesse all the dayes of his life? Insomuch that his heart can not rest in the nyght: This is also a vayne thyng.
13 The heart is sorowfull euen in laughter, and the ende of myrth is heauinesse.
12 So I perceaued that in those thinges there is nothyng better for a man then to be mery, and to do well as long as he lyueth.
11 Many thinges there be that encrease vanitie, and what hath a man els?
9 The cleare sight of the eye, is better then that the soule shoulde walke after desires of the lust: Howbeit, this is also a vayne thyng, and a disquietnesse of mynde.
11 From his youth his bones are full of pleasures, but now shall it lye downe within him in the earth.
20 For he thinketh not much howe long he shall lyue, forasmuch as God fylleth his heart with gladnesse.
13 A mery heart maketh a chearfull countenaunce: but by the sorowe of the heart the mynde is heauy.
15 Therfore I commende gladnesse, because a man hath no better thing vnder the sunne, then to eate and drinke, and to be merie: for that shall he haue of his labour, al the dayes of his life which God geueth hym vnder the sunne.
17 Be neither to vnrighteous also nor to foolishe, lest thou die before thy time.
17 Thus began I to be weery of my life, insomuch that I coulde away with nothyng that is done vnder the sunne: for all was but vanitie and vexation of mynde.
10 For I haue seene often the vngodly brought to their graues, and yet they haue returned into the citie agayne: and came from the place of holy men, whiche in the citie were growen out of memorie, as were those also that liued well: This is also a vayne thing.
11 Because nowe that euyll workes are not hastyly punished, the heart of man geueth hym selfe ouer vnto wickednesse.
8 All is but vanitie (saith the preacher) all is but playne vanitie.
10 And loke whatsoeuer myne eyes desired, I let them haue it: and wherin soeuer my heart delited or had any pleasure, I withhelde it not from it: Thus my heart reioyced in all that I did, and this was my portion of all my trauayle.
11 But when I considered all the workes that my handes had wrought, and all the labour that I had taken therin: lo all was but vanitie and vexation of mynde, and nothing of any value vnder the sunne.
27 O howe good is it for a man to take the yoke vpon him from his youth vp?
14 Use well the tyme of prosperitie, and remember the tyme of misfortune: for God doth so temper the one and the other, that a man can finde nothing els.
3 Among all thinges that come to passe vnder the sunne, this is a miserie, that it happeneth vnto all alike: This is the cause also that the heartes of men are full of wickednesse, and madde foolishnesse is in their heartes as long as they liue, vntyll they dye.
10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the dayes of the old time were better then they that be nowe? for that were no wyse question.
20 So I turned me to refrayne my mynde from all such trauayle as I toke vnder the sunne,
18 Let thy well be blessed, and be glad with the wyfe of thy youth.
7 Go thou thy way then, eate thy bread with ioy, & drinke thy wine with a glad heart, for thy workes please god:
26 And why? God geueth to the man that is good before hym, wisdome, vnderstandyng, and gladnesse: but vnto the sinner he geueth weerinesse, that he may gather and heape together the thyng that afterwarde shalbe geuen vnto hym whom it pleaseth God: This is nowe a vayne thyng, yea a very disquietnesse and vexation of mynde.
22 A mery heart make a lustie age: but a sorowfull minde dryeth vp the bones.
25 Then shal his fleshe be as freshe as a childes, and shal returne as in the dayes of his youth.
9 Suffer afflictions, and mourne, and weepe: Let your laughter be turned to mournyng, and your ioy to heauinesse.
22 Wherfore I perceaue that there is nothyng better for a man then to be ioyfull in his labour, for that is his portion: But who wyll bryng hym to see the thyng that shall come after hym?
27 Lo, this we our selues haue proued by experience, and euen thus it is: Hearken thou to it also, that thou mayest take heede to thy selfe.
17 Yea, my heart had great experience of wisdome & knowledge: for thervnto I applied my mynde, that I myght knowe what were wisdome and vnderstandyng, what were errour and foolishnesse: and I perceaued that this was also but a vexation of mynde.
3 So I thought in my heart to geue my fleshe vnto wine, and agayne to apply my mynde vnto wisdome, and to comprehende foolishnesse: vntyll the tyme that among all the thynges which are vnder the sunne, I myght see what were best for men to do so long as they liue vnder heauen.
11 My dayes are past, and my counsailes and thoughtes of my heart are vanished away,
15 Then thought I in my mynde, yf it happen vnto the foole as it doth vnto me, what needeth me then to labour any more for wisdome? So I confessed within my heart that this also was but vanitie.