OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 11:8

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

8

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

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 8. And the. Hebrew “for they are many. What comes to pass is vanity.” Mont.—Nothing can more effectually repress the love of this world. Sirach 7:40. After Solomon has presented the objections of the wicked, he comes to this conclusion.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter