Ecclesiastes 6:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his futile life, which he passes like a shadow? For who declares to man what shall be after him, under the sun?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For who [limited to human wisdom] knows what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow [going through the motions but accomplishing nothing]? For who can tell a man what will happen [to his work, his treasure, his plans] under the sun after he is gone?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Common English Bible

¹² Because who knows what’s good for human beings during life, during their brief pointless life, which will pass away like a shadow? Who can say what the future holds for people under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 6:12 Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

“For we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower and withers. He flees like a shadow and does not continue.

Job 14:21

His sons come to esteem, and he does not know it. And they are brought low, and he does not perceive it.

Job 8:9

for we are but of yesterday, and know not, because our days on earth are as a shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I have gone like a lengthening shadow, I have been driven away like a locust.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow.

Psalm 16:5

יהוה is the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You uphold my lot.

Psalm 17:15

As for me, let Me see Your face in righteousness; I am satisfied to see Your appearance when I awake.

Psalm 4:6

Many are saying, “Who would show us good?” יהוה, lift up the light of Your face upon us.

Psalm 47:4

He chooses our inheritance for us, The excellence of Ya‛aqoḇ whom He loves. Selah.

Psalm 89:47

Please remember how short my time is; Why should you have created all the sons of men for naught?

Ecclesiastes 10:14

And a fool increases words; a man knows not what shall come to be; and who declares to him what shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us hear the conclusion of the entire matter: Fear Elohim and guard His commands, for this applies to all mankind!

Ecclesiastes 2:24

A man could do no better but to eat and drink, and enjoy himself in his labour! That too, I saw, was from the hand of Elohim.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched in my heart how to stimulate my body with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, until I could see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that man could do no better but to rejoice in his own works, for that is his portion. For who would bring him to see what shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 6:11

The more words, the more futility – what is to man the advantage?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I have seen it all in my days of futility: There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong one living long in his evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wrong one, nor would he prolong his days as a shadow, because he does not fear before Elohim.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he does not know what shall be; so who declares to him when it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy have now perished; and they no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

See life with the wife whom you love all the days of your futile life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of futility. For that is your share in life, and in your toil which you have laboured under the sun.

Micah 6:8

He has declared to you, O man, what is good. And what does יהוה require of you but to do right, and to love loving-commitment, and to walk humbly with your Elohim?

James 4:14

when you do not know of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour that appears for a little, and then disappears –