Ecclesiastes 6:12

New American Bible - revised edition

For who knows what is good for mortals in life, the limited days of their vain life, spent like a shadow? Because who can tell them what will come afterward under the sun?

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For before you we are strangers and travelers, like all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without a future.

Job 14:2

Like a flower that springs up and fades, swift as a shadow that does not abide.

Job 14:21

If their children are honored, they are not aware of it; or if disgraced, they do not know about them.

Job 8:9

As we are but of yesterday and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are but a shadow—

Psalm 102:11

Because of your furious wrath, you lifted me up just to cast me down.

Psalm 109:23

Like a lengthening shadow I am gone, I am shaken off like the locust.

Psalm 144:4

Man is but a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 16:5

Lord, my allotted portion and my cup, you have made my destiny secure.

Psalm 17:15

I am just—let me see your face; when I awake, let me be filled with your presence.

Psalm 4:6

Offer fitting sacrifices and trust in the Lord.

Psalm 47:4

Who made people subject to us, nations under our feet,

Psalm 89:47

How long, Lord? Will you hide forever? Must your wrath smolder like fire?

Ecclesiastes 10:14

yet fools multiply words. No one knows what is to come, for who can tell anyone what will be?

Ecclesiastes 12:13

The last word, when all is heard: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this concerns all humankind;

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink and provide themselves with good things from their toil. Even this, I saw, is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

Guided by wisdom, I probed with my mind how to beguile my senses with wine and take up folly, until I should understand what is good for human beings to do under the heavens during the limited days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

And I saw that there is nothing better for mortals than to rejoice in their work; for this is their lot. Who will let them see what is to come after them?

Ecclesiastes 6:11

For the more words, the more vanity; what profit is there for anyone?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I have seen all manner of things in my vain days: the just perishing in their justice, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

and that it shall not be well with the wicked, who shall not prolong their shadowy days, for their lack of reverence toward God.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

that they are ignorant of what is to come; for who will make known to them how it will be?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

For them, love and hatred and rivalry have long since perished. Never again will they have part in anything that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife you love, all the days of the vain life granted you under the sun. This is your lot in life, for the toil of your labors under the sun.

Micah 6:8

You have been told, O mortal, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you: Only to do justice and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.

James 4:14

you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.