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Ecclesiastes 11:10

So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.

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ASV

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

KJV

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְהָסֵ֥רve.ha.Serand removeH5493 →
כַּ֙עַס֙ka.'asvexationH3708 →
מִלִּבֶּ֔ךָmi.li.Be.khafrom heart yourH3820 →
וְהַעֲבֵ֥רve.ha.'a.Verand put awayH5674 →
רָעָ֖הra.'AhevilH7451 →
מִבְּשָׂרֶ֑ךָmi.be.sa.Re.khafrom flesh yourH1320 →
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
הַיַּלְד֥וּתhai.yal.Dut<the> youthH3208 →
וְהַֽשַּׁחֲר֖וּתve.ha.sha.cha.Rutand the black hairH7839 →
הָֽבֶל׃Ha.vel[are] futilityH1892 →

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1 Corinthians 13:11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.2 Corinthians 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.2 Timothy 2:22Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.Ecclesiastes 1:2“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”Psalms 90:7–11For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.2 Peter 3:11–14Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to conduct yourselves in holiness and godlinessJob 20:11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. SelahJob 13:26For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.Psalms 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.2 Kings 2:23From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”Judges 20:13Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.Job 3:10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.

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King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré

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Even the vigor of a young life (rightly enjoyed, the book insists) is itself hevel: it does not last long enough for a hand to close around it.

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About Ecclesiastes

King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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