Ecclesiastes 6:12

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

For who shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.

Job 14:2

And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.

Job 14:21

His sons will be honored and he knew not: they will be brought low, and he will not understand for them.

Job 8:9

(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Psalm 102:11

My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.

Psalm 109:23

As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.

Psalm 144:4

Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.

Psalm 16:5

Jehovah the portion of my part and of my cup: thou didst hold up my lot.

Psalm 17:15

I in justice shall see thy face: I shall be satisfied in awaking with thine appearance.

Psalm 4:6

Many saying, Who will cause us to see good? Lift up upon us the light of thy face, O Jehovah.

Psalm 47:4

He will choose for us our inheritance, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Silence.

Psalm 89:47

Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?

Ecclesiastes 10:14

And the foolish one will multiply words: man shall not know what shall be; and what shall be after him, who shall announce to him?

Ecclesiastes 12:13

We will hear the end of all the word: Fear thou God, and watch his commands: for this is all man.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

Not good in man he shall eat and drink and cause his soul to see good in his labor. Also this I saw that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I examined in my heart to draw my flesh with wine, and my heart led in wisdom; and to lay hold upon folly till that I shall see what this good to the sons of man which they will do under the heavens the number of the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

And I saw that no good more than that man shall rejoice in his works; for this is his portion: for who shall bring him to look upon what shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 6:11

For there is many words increasing vanity, what shall remain to man?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I saw all in the days of my vanity: there is a just one perishing in his justice, and there is an unjust one, being prolonged in his evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

And it shall not be good to the unjust one; he shall not lengthen the days as a shadow, for he feared not from before the face of God.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he will not know what shall be: for as it shall be who shall announce to him?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, also their hatred, also their envy perished already; and no more portion to them forever in all which was done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

See life with the wife which thou didst love all the days of the life of thy vanity which he gave to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for this thy portion in life, and in thy labor which thou laborest under the sun.

Micah 6:8

He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God?

James 4:14

(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)