Ecclesiastes 11:10

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

Remove anger from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh. For youth and pleasure are vain.

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

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

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְהָסֵ֥ר כַּ֨עַס֙ מִלִּבֶּ֔ךָ וְהַעֲבֵ֥ר רָעָ֖ה מִבְּשָׂרֶ֑ךָ כִּֽי־הַיַּלְד֥וּת וְהַֽשַּׁחֲר֖וּת הָֽבֶל׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἀπόστησον θυμὸν ἀπὸ καρδίας σου, καὶ πάραγε πονηρίαν ἀπὸ σαρκός σου, ὅτι ἡ νεότης καὶ ἡ ἄνοια ματαιότης.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• 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 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,”
• 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.
• 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 godliness as you anticipate and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens…
• Psalms 90:7–11For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath. You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a…
• Job 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. Selah
• Job 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.

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