Ecclesiastes 6:12

New King James Version

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, As were all our fathers; Our days on earth are as a shadow, And without hope.

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower and fades away; He flees like a shadow and does not continue.

Job 14:21

His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; They are brought low, and he does not perceive it.

Job 8:9

For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 16:5

O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot.

Psalm 17:15

As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness.

Psalm 4:6

There are many who say, “Who will show us any good?” Lord, lift up the light of Your countenance upon us.

Psalm 47:4

He will choose our inheritance for us, The excellence of Jacob whom He loves. Selah

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is; For what futility have You created all the children of men?

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool also multiplies words. No man knows what is to be; Who can tell him what will be after him?

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I perceived that nothing is better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his heritage. For who can bring him to see what will happen after him?

Ecclesiastes 6:11

Since there are many things that increase vanity, How is man the better?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I have seen everything in my days of vanity: There is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, And there is a wicked man who prolongs life in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he does not know what will happen; So who can tell him when it will occur?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished; Nevermore will they have a share In anything done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; for that is your portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun.

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

James 4:14

whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.