Ecclesiastes 11:10

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age `are' vanity!

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;
  • 2 Pet 3:11-14 : 11 All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts? 12 waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt; 13 and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell; 14 wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,
  • Job 13:26 : 26 For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:
  • Job 20:11 : 11 His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.
  • Ps 25:7 : 7 Sins of my youth, and my transgressions, Do not Thou remember. According to Thy kindness be mindful of me, For Thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age `is' as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity `is' every man set up. Selah.
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, 9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation. 10 Days of our years, in them `are' seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet `is' their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath?
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is' vanity.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!
  • Eccl 12:1 : 1 Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, `I have no pleasure in them.'

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    7Sweet also `is' the light, And good for the eyes to see the sun.

    8But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming `is' vanity.

    9Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.

  • Eccl 12:1-2
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    1Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, `I have no pleasure in them.'

    2While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain.

  • Eccl 2:1
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    1I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it `is' vanity.

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    9See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it `is' thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

    10All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

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    11And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,

  • Eccl 7:2-4
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    2Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth `it' unto his heart.

    3Better `is' sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.

    4The heart of the wise `is' in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.

  • Job 11:14-17
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    14If iniquity `is' in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.

    15For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.

    16For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.

    17And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest -- as the morning thou art.

  • Eccl 2:22-23
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    22For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

    23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.

  • Prov 14:13
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    13Even in laughter is the heart pained, And the latter end of joy `is' affliction.

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

  • Eccl 6:9
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    9Better `is' the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Job 20:11
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    11His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

  • Eccl 5:20
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    20For he doth not much remember the days of his life, for God is answering through the joy of his heart.

  • Prov 15:13
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    13A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten.

  • Eccl 8:15
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    15And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

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    17Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?

  • Eccl 2:17
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    17And I have hated life, for sad to me `is' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 8:10-11
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    10And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also `is' vanity.

    11Because sentence hath not been done `on' an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.

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    8Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 2:10-11
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    10And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

    11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

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    27Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth.

  • Eccl 7:14
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    14In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.

  • Eccl 7:10
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    10Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.

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    20And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

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    18Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

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    7Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works.

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    26For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

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    22A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.

  • Job 33:25
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    25Fresher `is' his flesh than a child's, He returneth to the days of his youth.

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    9be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

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    22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

  • Job 5:27
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    27Lo, this -- we searched it out -- it `is' right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!

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    17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;

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    3I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where `is' this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

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    11My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!

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    15and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is' vanity: