Ecclesiastes 6:12

Young's Literal Translation 1898

For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

Job 14:2

As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.

Job 14:21

Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.

Job 8:9

(For of yesterday we are , and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.)

Psalm 102:11

My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I--as the herb I am withered.

Psalm 109:23

As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

Psalm 144:4

Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.

Psalm 16:5

Jehovah is the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou--Thou dost uphold my lot.

Psalm 17:15

I--in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, with Thy form!

Psalm 4:6

Many are saying, `Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah,

Psalm 47:4

He doth choose for us our inheritance, The excellency of Jacob that He loves. Selah.

Psalm 89:47

Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

Ecclesiastes 10:14

And the fool multiplieth words: `Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'

Ecclesiastes 12:13

The end of the whole matter let us hear: --`Fear God, and keep His commands, for this is the whole of man.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where is this--the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it is his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

Ecclesiastes 6:11

For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage is to man?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging himself in his wrong.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it is thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

Micah 6:8

He hath declared to thee, O man, what is good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except--to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

James 4:14

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;