Ecclesiastes 11:9-10

Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment. So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Ecclesiastes 11

3 songs meet this passage

  • Baba O'Riley · The Who

    resonates with Ecclesiastes 11:9-10

    Ecclesiastes names the restlessness and fleeting vanity of youth much like this refrain, though without resolving it.

  • Little Lies · ODIE

    resonates with Ecclesiastes 11:9

    Mirrors the sober awareness that all our ways eventually come to reckoning, a tension the song doesn't resolve but doesn't dismiss either.

  • “You only live once do whatever you like”

    Drunk and Hot Girls (feat. Mos Def) · Kanye West

    strains against Ecclesiastes 11:9

    Scripture echoes the 'seize the moment' impulse but immediately adds accountability before God, a weight entirely absent from the song's version.

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