Ecclesiastes 11:8

So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.

Cross References (27)

  • John 12:35 (7)

    Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that da

  • Deuteronomy 32:29 (6)

    If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

  • Ecclesiastes 7:14 (5)

    In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with th

  • Joel 2:2 (5)

    a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong

  • Ecclesiastes 8:12 (3)

    Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fe

  • Job 14:10 (3)

    But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

  • Jeremiah 13:16 (3)

    Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for

  • Ecclesiastes 6:11 (3)

    For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone?

  • Ecclesiastes 8:15 (3)

    So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and

  • Jude 1:18 (3)

    when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”

  • Ecclesiastes 12:1–5 (3)

    Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you w

  • Ecclesiastes 2:17 (2)

    So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit

  • Job 10:22 (2)

    to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

  • Job 15:23 (2)

    He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:15–16 (2)

    As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to ca

  • Ecclesiastes 2:1–11 (2)

    I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:15 (2)

    So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to my

  • Ecclesiastes 4:8 (2)

    There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not

  • Matthew 22:13 (2)

    Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weep

  • Ecclesiastes 4:16 (2)

    There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come eve

  • Ecclesiastes 3:12–13 (2)

    I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,

  • Ecclesiastes 2:26 (2)

    To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of

  • Ecclesiastes 2:19 (2)

    And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skill

  • Ecclesiastes 2:21–23 (2)

    When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a man who has not

  • Job 18:18 (2)

    He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

  • Ecclesiastes 6:6 (2)

    even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

  • Ecclesiastes 5:18–20 (2)

    Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does un