Ecclesiastes 6:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

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  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
  • Eccl 3:22 : 22 So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?
  • Lam 3:24-27 : 24 I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him. 25 The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him. 26 It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord. 27 It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
  • Eccl 8:7 : 7 No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.) 6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
  • Ps 47:4 : 4 He will give us our heritage, the glory of Jacob who is dear to him. (Selah.)
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
  • Ps 90:10-12 : 10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone. 11 Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion? 12 So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
  • Job 14:21 : 21 His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.
  • Ps 16:5 : 5 The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.
  • Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.
  • Eccl 2:3 : 3 I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
  • Eccl 9:6 : 6 Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.
  • Eccl 12:13 : 13 This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 6:1-11
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    86%

    1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;

    2 A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

    3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

    4 In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

    5 Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

    6 And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

    7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

    8 What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

    9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

    10 That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.

    11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

  • Eccl 2:15-26
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    15 Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.

    16 Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

    17 So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

    18 Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.

    19 And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

    20 So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.

    21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

    22 What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

    23 All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

    24 There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

    25 Who may take food or have pleasure without him?

    26 To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

  • Eccl 1:2-3
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    82%

    2 All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

    3 What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

  • Eccl 8:6-7
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    6 For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.

    7 No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

  • Eccl 3:21-22
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    21 Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?

    22 So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

  • Eccl 8:17
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    17 Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12 I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

  • Eccl 11:8
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    8 But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

  • Ps 144:4
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    4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Ps 39:6
    78%

    6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • Eccl 2:11-12
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    77%

    11 Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

    12 And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.

  • Eccl 12:8
    77%

    8 All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

  • Eccl 4:16
    76%

    16 There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

  • Eccl 3:19
    76%

    19 Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

  • Eccl 8:15
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    15 So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

  • Eccl 1:14
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    14 I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

  • Eccl 9:9-10
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    9 Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

    10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

  • Eccl 5:18
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    18 Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

  • Eccl 4:3
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    3 Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3 This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

  • Eccl 4:8
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    8 It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1 All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

  • Jas 4:14
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    14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.