Ecclesiastes 11:8
8So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember athat the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is bvanity. ▼▼The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath”; also verse 10 (see note on 1:2)
Ecclesiastes 12:1-2
Remember Your Creator in Your Youth
1Remember also your Creator in dthe days of your youth, before ethe evil days come and the years draw near of which fyou will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; 2before gthe sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,Isaiah 5:30
30They will growl over it on that day,like the growling of the sea.
And if one looks to the land,
behold, hdarkness and distress;
and the light is darkened by its clouds.
Isaiah 8:22
22 iAnd they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into jthick darkness.Isaiah 59:9
9 Therefore justice is far from us,and righteousness does not overtake us;
kwe hope for light, and behold, darkness,
and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
Jeremiah 4:23
23 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was lwithout form and void;mand to the heavens, and they had no light.
Amos 8:9-10
9 “And on that day,” declares the Lord God,n“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 oI will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
pI will bring sackcloth on every waist
qand baldness on every head;
rI will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
John 12:35
35So Jesus said to them, s“The light is among you tfor a little while longer. uWalk while you have the light, lest darkness vovertake you. wThe one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
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