Prediger 11:9-10

9 Freue dich, Jüngling, in deiner Jugend, und dein Herz mache dich fröhlich in den Tagen deiner Jugendzeit, und wandle in den Wegen deines Herzens und im Anschauen deiner Augen; doch wisse, daß um dies alles Gott dich ins Gericht bringen wird.

10 Und entferne den Unmut aus deinem Herzen, und tue das Übel von deinem Leibe weg; denn die Jugend und das Mannesalter sind Eitelkeit.

Prediger 11:9-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ECCLESIASTES 11

This chapter begins with an exhortation to liberality to the poor, enforced by several reasons and arguments, and the objections to it removed; and the whole illustrated by various similes, Ec 11:1-6; and then it is observed, that a life attended with outward prosperity and inward peace, and spent in doing good, is very delightful, and very desirable it is to have it continued; yet it should be remembered this will not be always, that many days of darkness in the grave will come; and after all the whole of a man's life is vanity, as is often inculcated, Ec 11:7,8; and the chapter is closed with an ironic address to young men, designed to show them the folly and danger of sinful courses, to reform them from them, and to put them in mind of a future judgment, Ec 11:9,10.