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Ecclesiastes 6:12

WEB

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

KJV

12For 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?

BSB

12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

FBV

12Who knows what's best for us and our lives? During our short lives that pass like shadows we have many unanswered questions. And who can tell us what will happen when we're gone?

Extra References

James 4:14

14Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

Job 14:2

2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

22Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Psalms 144:4

4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Lamentations 3:24-27

24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.” 25The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. 26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. 27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Psalms 39:5-6

5Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah. 6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

1 Chronicles 29:15

15For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Job 8:9

9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

Ecclesiastes 8:7

7For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?