Ecclesiastes 6:12 - King James 2000

¹² For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For who [limited to human wisdom] knows what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow [going through the motions but accomplishing nothing]? For who can tell a man what will happen [to his work, his treasure, his plans] under the sun after he is gone?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Common English Bible

¹² Because who knows what’s good for human beings during life, during their brief pointless life, which will pass away like a shadow? Who can say what the future holds for people under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 6:12 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.

Job 14:21

His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.

Job 8:9

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am shaken off like the locust.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

Psalm 16:5

The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot.

Psalm 17:15

As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.

Psalm 4:6

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.

Psalm 47:4

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

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

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I sought in my heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men, which they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his lot: for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 6:11

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

Ecclesiastes 7:15

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

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

Micah 6:8

He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

James 4:14

Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.