Ecclesiastes 6:12

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

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

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

Job 14:21

His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

Job 8:9

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

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a arbeh.

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 16:5

The LORD assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

Psalm 17:15

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

Psalm 4:6

Many say, *Who will show us any good?* LORD, let the light of your face shine on us.

Psalm 47:4

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Ya`akov whom he loved. Selah.

Psalm 89:47

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

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

Ecclesiastes 12:13

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his mitzvot; for this is the whole duty of man.

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 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 of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

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 can bring him to see what will be after him?

Ecclesiastes 6:11

For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evil-doing.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

James 4:14

Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.