Ecclesiastes 6:12

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

James 4:14

men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--

Ecclesiastes 3:22

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion. For who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?

Job 8:9

(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

[This is] the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, has perished long ago, nor have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine (my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom), and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of th

Psalm 109:23

I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 17:15

As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy form.

Psalm 4:6

Many there are who say, Who will show us good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

Job 14:21

His sons come to honor, and he does not know it, and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.

Micah 6:8

He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Psalm 89:47

O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

Psalm 47:4

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Psalm 16:5

LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. Thou maintain my lot.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

Since there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

All this I have seen in my days of vanity. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs [his life] in his evil-doing.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool also multiplies words; [yet] man knows not what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?