Ecclesiastes 6:12

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

For who knows what is good for man in this life, the number of the days of his life of vanity? Even he makes them like the shadow. For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

for we are strangers before You, and settlers, like all our fathers; our days on the land are like a shadow, and there is none abiding.

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower and withers; he also flees like a shadow and does not stand.

Job 14:21

His sons are honored, and he does not know; they are insignificant, but he does not discern it.

Job 8:9

for we are but of yesterday, and we do not know, because our days on earth are a shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow stretched out, and I wither like grass.

Psalm 109:23

As a shadow when it stretches out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes.

Psalm 16:5

Jehovah is the portion of My lot and of my cup; You shall uphold My lot.

Psalm 17:15

As for me, in righteousness I will look upon Your face; when I awaken, I shall be satisfied with Your image.

Psalm 4:6

Many are saying, Who will make us see any good? O Jehovah, lift up the light of Your face on us.

Psalm 47:4

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

Psalm 89:47

Remember, I pray, the time of life; for what vanity have you created all the sons of men?

Ecclesiastes 10:14

Yet the fool makes many words; a man knows not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments; for this applies to every man.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

Is it not good that he should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his labor? This I also saw, that it was from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched in my heart how to draw out my flesh with wine, and leading my heart in wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see where the good for the sons of men is, that which they should do under the heavens the number of days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

And I have seen that nothing is better than that the man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 6:11

Since there are many things that increase vanity, and what is the advantage to men?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

All things I have seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just one who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked one who prolongs his life in his evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be good for the wicked one; and he shall not prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he does not know what shall be. For who can declare to him when it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has now perished; and not there is a portion for them any more forever in all that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Look on life with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which He gave you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. For that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you as a laborer do under the sun.

Micah 6:8

O man, He has declared to you what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you, but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to be humble to walk with your God?

James 4:14

who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a mist, which for a little is appearing, and then disappearing. Ps. 94:11