Ecc 11:9 | JFB | STEP | 9. Rejoice —not advice, but warning. So , is irony; if thou dost rejoice ( carnally, , not moderately, as in ), &c., then "know that . . . God will bring thee into judgment" ( ). youth . . . youth —distinct Hebrew words, adolescence or boyhood (before ), and full-grown youth. It marks the gradual progress in self-indulgence, to which the young especially are prone; they see the roses, but do not discover the thorns, until pierced by them. Religion will cost self-denial, but the want of it infinitely more ( ).

Ecclesiastes 11:9

9. Rejoice—not advice, but warning. So 1Ki 22:15, is irony; if thou dost rejoice (carnally, Ec 2:2; 7:2, not moderately, as in Ec 5:18), &c., then "know that . . . God will bring thee into judgment" (Ec 3:17; 12:14).

youth . . . youth—distinct Hebrew words, adolescence or boyhood (before Ec 11:10), and full-grown youth. It marks the gradual progress in self-indulgence, to which the young especially are prone; they see the roses, but do not discover the thorns, until pierced by them. Religion will cost self-denial, but the want of it infinitely more (Lu 14:28).