Ecclesiastes 6:12

American Standard Version (1901)

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?

Cross References

James 4:14

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

Wherefore 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 cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

for he knoweth 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 hath been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion for ever 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 their life.

Psalm 109:23

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

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declineth; 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 beholding thy form.

Psalm 4:6

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

Job 14:21

His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

Micah 6:8

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Psalm 89:47

Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

Psalm 47:4

He chooseth our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. [Selah

Psalm 16:5

Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest 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

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

Ecclesiastes 7:15

All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil-doing.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?