Verse 12

For who knoweth what is good for man lyuynge, in ye dayes of his vayne life, which is but a shadowe? Or, who wil tell a man, what shal happen after him vnder the Sonne?

Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:2 : 2 He cometh vp, and falleth awaye like a floure. He flyeth as it were a shadowe, and neuer continueth in one state.
  • Eccl 3:22 : 22 Wherfore I perceaue, yt there is nothyinge better for a man, then to be ioyfull in his laboure, for that is his porcion. But who wil brynge him to se the thinge, that shal come after him?
  • Lam 3:24-27 : 24 The LORDE is my porcion (saieth my soule) therfore wil I hope in him. 25 O how good is the LORDE vnto the, that put their trust in him, and to the soule that seketh after him? 26 O how good is it with stilnesse to wate and tarie, for the health of the LORDE? 27 O how good is it for a man, to take the yock vpon him from his youth vp?
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 & yet ca not tell what shal happe to morowe. For what thinge is youre life? It is euen a vapoure that apereth for a lytell tyme, and the vanysheth awaye:
  • Eccl 8:7 : 7 And why? a man knoweth not what is for to come, for who wyll tell him?
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 Agayne, as for the vngodly, it shall not be well with him, nether shal he prologe his dayes: but euen as a shadowe, so shall he be that feareth not God.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a thinge of naught, his tyme passeth awaye like a shadowe.
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 LORDE, let me knowe myne ende, and the nombre of my dayes: that I maye be certified what I wante. 6 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes a spanne longe, and my life is as it were nothinge before the. O how vayne are all men lyuynge?
  • Ps 47:4 : 4 He choseth vs for an heretage, the beutie of Iacob whom he loued.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Sela. LORDE, how longe wilt thou hyde thy self? For euer? shal thy wrath burne like fyre?
  • Ps 90:10-12 : 10 The dayes of oure age are iij. score yeares & ten: & though men be so stronge that they come to iiij. score yeares, yet is their strength then but laboure and sorowe: so soone passeth it awaye, & we are gone. 11 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath, thy fearfull & terrible displeasure? 12 O teach vs to nombre oure dayes, that we maye applie oure hertes vnto wy?dome.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My dayes are gone like a shadowe, and I am wythered like grasse.
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 My knees are weake thorow fastinge, my flesh is dried vp for want of fatnesse.
  • Job 14:21 : 21 Whether his children come to worshipe or no, he can not tell: And yf they be men of lowe degre, he knoweth not.
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 There be many yt saye: who wil do vs eny good? where as thou (o LORDE) hast shewed vs the light of yi countenauce.
  • Ps 16:5 : 5 Their drynkofferynges of bloude wil not I offre, nether make mencion of their name in my mouth.
  • Ps 17:15 : 15 They haue children at their desyre, and leaue the reste of their substauce for their babes. But as for me, I will beholde thy presence in rightuousnes: and when thy glory appeareth, I shal be satisfied.
  • Eccl 2:3 : 3 So I thought in my herte, to withdrawe my flesh from wyne, to applye my mynde vnto wy?dome, and to comprehede foolishnes vntill the tyme that (amonge all ye thinges which are vnder ye Sonne) I might se what were best for men to do, so longe as they lyue vnder heauen.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are but pilgrems & straugers before the, as were all oure fathers. Oure life vpon earth is as a shadowe, and here is no abydinge.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 Namely, yt we are but of yesterdaye, and considre not, that oure dayes vpon earth are buth a very shadow.
  • Eccl 9:6 : 6 so yt they be nether loued, hated ner envyed: nether haue they eny more parte in ye worlde, in all yt is done vnder the Sonne.
  • Eccl 12:13 : 13 Lat vs heare the conclucion of all thinges: Feare God, and kepe his comaundementes, for that toucheth all men:
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 I wil shewe the (O ma) what is good, and what the LORDE requyreth off the: Namely, to do right, to haue pleasure in louynge kyndnesse, to be lowly, and to walke with thy God: