Ecclesiastes 11:10 “So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, fo…”

Ecclesiastes 11:10

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore take away griefe out of thine heart, and cause euil to depart from thy flesh: for childehood and youth are vanitie.

Darby Translation

Then remove discontent from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.

Young's Literal Translation

And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age [are] vanity!

Bible in Basic English

So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

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Cross references

“remove”

Ecclesiastes 12:1 2 Peter 3:11–14 Job 13:26 Psalm 25:7

Ecclesiastes 12:1 · BSB

Remember 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,”

2 Peter 3:11–14 · BSB

Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to conduct yourselves in holiness and godliness

Job 13:26 · BSB

For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

Psalm 25:7 · BSB

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.

“sorrow”

Psalm 90:7–11

Psalm 90:7–11 · BSB

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

“and put”

2 Corinthians 7:1 2 Timothy 2:22 Job 20:11

2 Corinthians 7:1 · BSB

Therefore, 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 2:22 · BSB

Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Job 20:11 · BSB

The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

“for”

Ecclesiastes 1:2 Ecclesiastes 1:14 Psalm 39:5 Proverbs 22:15

Ecclesiastes 1:2 · BSB

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”

Ecclesiastes 1:14 · BSB

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.

Psalm 39:5 · BSB

You, 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. Selah

Proverbs 22:15 · BSB

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

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