Ecclesiastes 6:12

Tree of Life Version

For who knows what is good for one during his life—during the few days of his fleeting life—that pass like a shadow? For who can tell a person what happens after him under the sun?

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, mere transients like our fathers. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, without security.

Job 14:2

Like a flower he comes up and withers; like a shadow he flees and does not stay.

Job 14:21

If his sons achieve honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not perceive it.

Job 8:9

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

Psalm 102:11

because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and tossed me aside.

Psalm 109:23

I fade away like an evening shadow, shaken off like a locust.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath— his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 16:5

Adonai is my portion and my cup. You cast my lot.

Psalm 17:15

I in righteousness will behold Your face! When I awake, I will be satisfied with Your likeness.

Psalm 4:6

Offer righteous sacrifices and put your trust in Adonai.

Psalm 47:4

He subdues peoples under us, and nations under our feet.

Psalm 89:47

How long, Adonai, will You hide Yourself? Forever? Will Your fury keep burning like fire?

Ecclesiastes 10:14

and the fool multiplies words. No one knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will happen after him?

Ecclesiastes 12:13

A final word, when all has been heard: Fear God and keep His mitzvot! For this applies to all mankind.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in their labor. This too, I perceived, is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I thought deeply about how to cheer my flesh with wine—letting my heart guide me with wisdom—and how to grasp folly, so that I could see what was worthwhile for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I perceived that nothing is better than for man to enjoy his works, because that is his portion. For who can bring him back to see what will be in the future?

Ecclesiastes 6:11

When there are many words, futility increases! How does that benefit anyone?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

During my fleeting days I have seen both of these things: sometimes a righteous one perishes in his righteousness and sometimes a wicked one lives long in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not go well with the wicked, and he will not lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

Since no one knows what will be, who can tell when it will happen?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love, their hatred, and their zeal have already perished; never again will they have a share in anything that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyously with the wife whom you love all the days of your fleeting life that He has given you under the sun during all your fleeting days—for this is your portion in life and in your toil that you labor under the sun.

Micah 6:8

He has told you, humanity, what is good, and what Adonai is seeking from you: Only to practice justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

James 4:14

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.