Ecclesiastes 6:12

New Century Version

People have only a few useless days of life on the earth; their short life passes like a shadow. Who knows what is best for them while they live? Who can tell them what the future will bring?

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are like foreigners and strangers, as our ancestors were. Our time on earth is like a shadow. There is no hope.

Job 14:2

We grow up like flowers and then dry up and die. We are like a passing shadow that does not last.

Job 14:21

Their children are honored, but they do not know it; their children are disgraced, but they do not see it.

Job 8:9

because we were only born yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are only a shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a passing shadow; I am like dried grass.

Psalm 109:23

I am dying like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Psalm 144:4

People are like a breath; their lives are like passing shadows.

Psalm 16:5

No, the Lord is all I need. He takes care of me.

Psalm 17:15

Because I have lived right, I will see your face. When I wake up, I will see your likeness and be satisfied.

Psalm 4:6

Many people ask, “Who will give us anything good?” Lord, be kind to us.

Psalm 47:4

He chose the land we would inherit. We are the children of Jacob, whom he loved.Selah

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life is. Why did you create us? For nothing?

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool talks too much. No one knows the future, and no one can tell what will happen after death.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Now, everything has been heard, so I give my final advice: Honor God and obey his commands, because this is all people must do.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

The best that people can do is eat, drink, and enjoy their work. I saw that even this comes from God,

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that the best thing people can do is to enjoy their work, because that is all they have. No one can help another person see what will happen in the future.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

The more you say, the more useless it is. What good does it do?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In my useless life I have seen both of these: I have seen good people die in spite of their goodness and evil people live a long time in spite of their evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

I also know it will not go well for evil people, because they do not honor God. Like a shadow, they will not last.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

They do not know what the future holds, and no one can tell them what will happen.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

After people are dead, they can no longer love or hate or envy. They will never again share in what happens here on earth.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife you love. Enjoy all the useless days of this useless life God has given you here on earth, because it is all you have. So enjoy the work you do here on earth.

Micah 6:8

The Lord has told you, human, what is good; he has told you what he wants from you: to do what is right to other people, love being kind to others, and live humbly, obeying your God.

James 4:14

But you do not know what will happen tomorrow! Your life is like a mist. You can see it for a short time, but then it goes away.