Ecclesiastes 6:12

Modern King James Version

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a 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 pilgrims, as our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and none abides.

Job 14:2

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

Job 14:21

His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; they fall, but he does not mark it.

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 shadow stretched out; and I wither like grass.

Psalm 109:23

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

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 16:5

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

Psalm 17:15

As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with Your image.

Psalm 4:6

There are many who say, Who will show us any good? Jehovah, lift up the light of Your face on us.

Psalm 47:4

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

Psalm 89:47

Remember, I pray, how short my time is; why have You made all men in vain?

Ecclesiastes 10:14

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

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God, and keep His commandments. For this is the whole duty of 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 sought in my heart to drag my flesh with wine, yet leading my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see where the good for the sons of men might be, what they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

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

Ecclesiastes 6:11

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

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 life in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wicked, nor shall he make his days longer like a shadow; because he does not fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; nor do they any longer have a part 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 has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. For that is your share in this life, and in your labor which you labor under the sun.

Micah 6:8

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

James 4:14

who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears.