קהלת 11:10

Hebrew Modern Translation

והסר כעס מלבך והעבר רעה מבשרך כי הילדות והשחרות הבל׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
והסר כעס מלבך והעבר רעה מבשרך כי הילדות והשחרות הבל

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
וְהָסֵ֥ר כַּ֙עַס֙ מִלִּבֶּ֔ךָ וְהַעֲבֵ֥ר רָעָ֖ה מִבְּשָׂרֶ֑ךָ כִּֽי־הַיַּלְד֥וּת וְהַֽשַּׁחֲר֖וּת הָֽבֶל ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
וְהָסֵר כַּעַס מִלִּבֶּךָ וְהַעֲבֵר רָעָה מִבְּשָׂרֶךָ כִּֽי־הַיַּלְדוּת וְהַֽשַּׁחֲרוּת הָֽבֶל ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

remove: Ecclesiastes 12:1, Job 13:26, Psalms 25:7, 2 Peter 3:11-14

sorrow: or, anger, Psalms 90:7-11

and put: Job 20:11, 2 Corinthians 7:1, 2 Timothy 2:22

for: Ecclesiastes 1:2, Ecclesiastes 1:14, Psalms 39:5, Proverbs 22:15

Reciprocal: Judges 20:13 - put away 2 Kings 2:23 - little children Job 3:10 - hid Psalms 34:11 - Come Psalms 119:9 - shall Proverbs 1:4 - to the Ecclesiastes 2:24 - nothing Ecclesiastes 8:6 - therefore Luke 15:13 - wasted Luke 16:2 - give 1 Corinthians 7:31 - use 1 Corinthians 13:11 - I spake

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart,.... Worldly sorrow, as opposed to lawful mirth and cheerfulness, and especially to spiritual joy: or "anger" z, as the word may be rendered, and often is; either at the providence of God, or at the correction of friends; all perturbations of the mind; all fierceness of spirit, and fiery passions, to which youthful age is subject: or all those things, as Jarchi observes, that provoke God to anger; sinful lusts and pleasures, the end and issue of which also is sorrow to men; and which agrees with our version;

and put away evil from thy flesh; or body; such as intemperance and uncleanness, to which young men are addicted: the advice is much the same, in both clauses, with that of the apostle's, "flee youthful lusts", 2 Timothy 2:22. Jarchi interprets this of the evil concupiscence;

for childhood and youth [are] vanity; which quickly pass away; come into manhood, and soon slide into old age, and are gone presently, and all things within that compass: all actions done in that age are for the most part vain and foolish; and all the delights, joys, and pleasures thereof, vanishing and transitory. The last word a, used to express the juvenile age, either is akin to a word which signifies the "morning"; youth being the morning and dawn of man's age, and increases as that; and as soon as it is peep of day with him, or he enters into life, he possesses vanity: or as having the signification of "blackness"; because, as Jarchi observes, the head of a young man is black: and so the Targum,

"childhood, and the days of blackness of hair, are vanity;''

whereas the hair of an aged man is gray.

z כעס "iram", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus; "indignationem", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus "God's anger", Broughton. a השחרות "ortus" Junius Tremellius "aurora", Cocceius, Gejerus, so Aben Ezra and Ben Melech; "dies nigredinis pili"; so the Targum, and Abendana.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The preceding exhortation to a life of labor in the sight of God is now addressed especially to the active and the young; and is enforced by another consideration, namely, the transitory character of all that sustains youth.

Ecclesiastes 11:7

The light ... the sun - Gifts of God which cheer man’s toil, but which he almost ceases to appreciate in his old age.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

Days of darkness - The time of old age, and perhaps any time of sorrow or misfortune. Compare Ecclesiastes 12:2.

All that cometh - i. e., “The future,” which must not be reckoned on by the active man, as if his present state of healthy energy were to continue.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice ... cheer ... walk - The imperative mood is used to encourage one who possesses certain gifts from God to remember that they come from God and are to be used in accordance with His will.

In the ways ... - The words are probably used in an innocent sense Ecclesiastes 2:10; Proverbs 16:9.

Judgment - This includes a judgment beyond the grave; though the writer’s view of it was dim and indefinite if compared with Christian’s.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

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.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 11:10. 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.