Ecclesiastes 6:12

English Standard Version 2016

For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

Cross References

James 4:14

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Job 14:2

He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?

Job 8:9

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

1 Chronicles 29:15

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

Ecclesiastes 12:13

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

Psalm 109:23

I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 17:15

As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.

Psalm 4:6

There are many who say, “Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, O Lord!”

Job 14:21

His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

Psalm 47:4

He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah

Psalm 16:5

The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,

Ecclesiastes 6:11

The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?