So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.
Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit,
Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord o
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you w
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists
For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to conduct yourselves in
For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of You
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.