Ecclesiastes 11:10
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.
Webster's Revision
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.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for youth and the prime of life are vanity.
Clarke's Ecclesiastes 11:10 Bible Commentary
Therefore remove sorrow - כעס caas, anger; every kind of violent passion, all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. "Childhood and youth are vanity;" they pass away and come to nothing. Eternity alone is permanent; live for eternity.
Barnes's Ecclesiastes 11:10 Bible Commentary
The sense appears to be, "Let the timely recollection of God's judgment, and of the fleeting character of youth, so influence your conduct that you will refrain from acts which entail future remorse and pain."
Wesley's Ecclesiastes 11:10 Bible Commentary
11:10 Sorrow - Sensual and disorderly lusts, which he elegantly calls sorrow, to intimate, that although such practices at present gratify mens senses, yet they will shortly bring them to intolerable sorrows.Evil - All evil desires, tho' now they seem good to thee. Vanity - Most vain. The time of youth is vanishing and transitory, and old age and death will speedily come, against which every wise man will take care to lay in solid provisions and comforts.