Ecclesiastes 11:8

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.

Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”