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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.

KJV

Si annis multis vixerit homo, et in his omnibus lætatus fuerit, meminisse debet tenebrosi temporis, et dierum multorum, qui cum venerint, vanitatis arguentur præterita.

Vulgate

ὅτι καὶ ἐὰν ἔτη πολλὰ ζήσεται ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ἐν πᾶσιν αὐτοῖς εὐφρανθήσεται, καὶ μνησθήσεται τὰς ἡμέρας τοῦ σκότους, ὅτι πολλαὶ ἔσονται· πᾶν τὸ ἐρχόμενον ματαιότης.

LXX

Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

ASV

כִּ֣י אִם שָׁנִ֥ים הַרְבֵּ֛ה יִחְיֶ֥ה הָ/אָדָ֖ם בְּ/כֻלָּ֣/ם יִשְׂמָ֑ח וְ/יִזְכֹּר֙ אֶת יְמֵ֣י הַ/חֹ֔שֶׁךְ כִּֽי הַרְבֵּ֥ה יִהְי֖וּ כָּל שֶׁ/בָּ֥א הָֽבֶל

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
הַרְבֵּ֥ה
hrbh
verb · 233×
הָֽבֶל
hbl
noun · 73×
זְכָר
zkr
verb · 231×
חֹ֔שֶׁךְ
chshk
noun · 80×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יִשְׂמְחוּ
yshmchv
verb · 153×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
נִי
ny
verb · 264×
שָׁנָ֔ה
shnh
verb · 877×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 32:29 — O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
  • Eccl 6:11 — Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
  • Eccl 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.
  • Eccl 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:
  • Eccl 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
  • Eccl 12:1 — 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;
  • Eccl 12:1 — 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;
  • Jer 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 da
  • Jer 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 da
  • Job 14:10 — But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
  • Job 15:23 — He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
  • 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 a
  • 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.
  • Jude 1:18 — How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.