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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walki in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgmentm.

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Num. 15:39• ³⁹and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: (Num. 15:39)

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Deut. 29:19‑20• ¹⁹and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.
²⁰Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens; (Deut. 29:19‑20)

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Eccl. 12:14• ¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment,{HR}With every hidden thing,{HR}Whether [it be] good or whether [it be] evil. (Eccl. 12:14)

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Heb. 9:27• ²⁷And forasmuch as it is appointed to men once to die, and, after this, judgment; (Heb. 9:27)

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Rejoice.

1 Kings 18:27• ²⁷And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. (1 Kings 18:27)

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1 Kings 22:15• ¹⁵And he came to the king. And the king said to him, Micah, shall we go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he said to him, Go up, and prosper; for Jehovah will give it into the hand of the king. (1 Kings 22:15)

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Luke 15:12‑13• ¹²and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give to me the share of the property that falleth [to me]. And he divided unto them his living.
¹³And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery. (Luke 15:12‑13)

in thy youth.

Eccl. 12:1• ¹Remember also thy Creator(s) in the days of thy youth{HR}Before the evil days come,{HR}And the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say,{HR}I have no pleasure in them; (Eccl. 12:1)

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1 Kings 18:12• ¹²And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I, thy servant, fear Jehovah from my youth. (1 Kings 18:12)

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Lam. 3:27• ²⁷It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. (Lam. 3:27)

walk.

Num. 15:30• ³⁰But the soul that doeth ought with a high hand, whether born in the land, or a stranger, he reproacheth Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. (Num. 15:30)

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Num. 22:32• ³²And the Angel of Jehovah said to him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, it was I who came forth to withstand thee, for the way thou walkest in is for ruin before me. (Num. 22:32)

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Deut. 29:19• ¹⁹and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty. (Deut. 29:19)

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Job 31:7• ⁷If my step turned aside from the way,{HR}And my heart walked after mine eyes,{HR}And a blot cleaved to my hands, (Job 31:7)

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Psa. 81:12• ¹²And I gave them up to the revolting of their heart,{HR}That they might walk in their own counsels. (Psa. 81:12)

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Jer. 7:24• ²⁴But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward. (Jer. 7:24)

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Jer. 23:17• ¹⁷They say constantly unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace. And they say unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his heart, No evil shall come upon you. (Jer. 23:17)

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Jer. 44:16‑17• ¹⁶As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee.
¹⁷But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven , and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. (Jer. 44:16‑17)

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Acts 14:16• ¹⁶who in the bygone generations suffered all the Gentiles to walk in their own ways. (Acts 14:16)

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Eph. 2:2‑3• ²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
³among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were children, by nature, of wrath even as the rest; (Eph. 2:2‑3)

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1 Peter 4:3‑4• ³For the past time [is] sufficient to have wrought out the will of the Gentiles, walking as ye had done in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revels, carousings, and unhallowed idolatries;
⁴wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of profligacy, speaking injuriously, (1 Peter 4:3‑4)

in the sight.

Eccl. 2:10• ¹⁰And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them:{HR}I withheld not my heart from any joy,{HR}For my heart rejoiced because of my labour. (Eccl. 2:10)

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Gen. 3:6• ⁶When the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that [it was] pleasant to the eyes, and the tree [was] desirable to make wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. (Gen. 3:6)

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Gen. 6:2• ²that the sons of God saw the daughters of mankind that they [were] fair and they took to them wives of all that they chose. (Gen. 6:2)

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Josh. 7:21• ²¹When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. (Josh. 7:21)

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2 Sam. 11:2‑4• ²And it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful;
³and David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urijah the Hittite?
⁴And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; and she had purified herself from her uncleanness; and she returned to her house. (2 Sam. 11:2‑4)

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Matt. 5:28• ²⁸but I say unto you that every one that looketh at a woman to lust after her committed adultery with her already in his heart. (Matt. 5:28)

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1 John 2:15‑16• ¹⁵Love not the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him:
¹⁶because all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. (1 John 2:15‑16)

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Eccl. 3:17• ¹⁷I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked:{HR}For there is a time for every purpose and every work. (Eccl. 3:17)

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Eccl. 12:14• ¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment,{HR}With every hidden thing,{HR}Whether [it be] good or whether [it be] evil. (Eccl. 12:14)

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Psa. 50:4‑6• ⁴He calleth to the heavens from above{HR}And to the earth to judge his people.
⁵Gather unto me my saints making my covenant by sacrifice.
⁶And the heavens declare his righteousness for God [is] judge himself. Selah. (Psa. 50:4‑6)

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Acts 17:30‑31• ³⁰God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent,
³¹inasmuch as he has appointed a day, in which he is about to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom he marked out, having given assurance to all in that he raised him from [the] dead. (Acts 17:30‑31)

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Acts 24:25• ²⁵And as he reasoned concerning righteousness and temperance and the judgment to come, Felix became terrified and answered, For the present go, and when I get a convenient season, I will send for thee, (Acts 24:25)

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Rom. 2:5‑11• ⁵But according to thy hardness and unrepentant heart thou treasurest to thyself wrath in [the] day of wrath and revelation of God's righteous judgment,
⁶who shall render to each according to his works:
⁷to those that with patience in good work seek for glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life;
⁸but to those that are contentious and disobey the truth but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation,
⁹tribulation and anguish on every soul of man that worketh out evil, both of Jew first and of Greek;
¹⁰but glory and honour and peace to everyone that worketh good, both to Jew first and to Greek;
¹¹for there is no regard of person with God. (Rom. 2:5‑11)

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Rom. 14:10• ¹⁰But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or thou too, why despisest thou thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God. (Rom. 14:10)

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1 Cor. 4:5• ⁵So then judge nothing prematurely until the Lord shall have come, who shall both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then shall each have his praise from God. (1 Cor. 4:5)

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2 Cor. 5:10• ¹⁰For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each may receive the things [done] in the body according to what he did, whether good or evil. (2 Cor. 5:10)

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2 Peter 3:7• ⁷But the now heavens and the earth by the same word have been stored with fire, being kept for a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. (2 Peter 3:7)

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Heb. 9:27• ²⁷And forasmuch as it is appointed to men once to die, and, after this, judgment; (Heb. 9:27)

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Rev. 20:12‑15• ¹²And I saw the dead, the great and the little, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things written in the books according to their works.
¹³And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and hades gave up the dead that were in them; and they were judged each according to their works.
¹⁴And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
¹⁵And if Anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:12‑15)

• So Ecclesiastes says, “let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many.” Oh sad and gloomy counsel! Is this what life is? Its bright morning ever to be clouded―its day to be darkened with the thoughts of its end? Oh sorrowful irony to tell us to rejoice in the years of life, and yet ever to bear in mind that those years are surely, irresistibly, carrying us on to the many “days of darkness.” Yes, this is where the highest intellect, the acutest reason, the purest wisdom of any man at any time has attained. (“Ecclesiastes 11” by F.C. Jennings)

• It is to this point that our writer has been climbing, step by step. Nature has taught him that the future must be looked at rather than the present; or, rather, the present must be looked at in the light of the future; for that future corresponds in its character to the present, as the crop does to the seed, only exceeds it in intensity as the harvest exceeds the grain sown. Thus bread hoarded gives no harvest; or, in other words, he who lives for the present alone, necessarily, by the simplest and yet strongest law of Nature, must suffer loss: this is Judgment by Nature’s law. This, too, is the keynote of every verse―“ the future,” “the future”; and God, who is clearly discerned by Reason as behind Nature, “which is but the name for an effect whose Cause is God,”―God is clearly recognized as returning a harvest in the future, in strict and accurate accord with the sowing of the present. This is very clear. Then how simple and how certain that if this is God’s irrefragable law in Nature, it must have its fulfillment too in the moral nature of man. (“Ecclesiastes 11” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

W. Kelly Translation

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Rejoice, young man, in thy youth;{HR}And let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth,{HR}And walk in the ways of thy heart,{HR}And in the sight of thine eyes;{HR}But know that for all these [things]{HR}God will bring thee into judgment.{HR}

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)