Verse 12

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

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for mennesket i livet, i et liv preget av meningsløshet? Hvem kan fortelle mennesket hva som skjer etter ham under solen?

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for mennesket i livet, alle de dager av hans forgjengelige liv, som han bruker som en skygge? Hvem kan fortelle mennesket hva som skal bli etter ham under solen?

• Norsk King James

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for mennesket i dette livet, alle dagene av hans meningsfulle liv som er som en skygge? Hvem kan fortelle en mann hva som vil skje etter ham her under solen?

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for mennesket i livet, i hans få forgjengelige dager som han tilbringer som en skygge? For hvem kan gi beskjed til mennesket om hva som skal skje etter ham under solen?

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for mennesket i livet, gjennom alle sine forgjengelige dager, mens han farer av sted som en skygge? Hvem kan fortelle mennesket hva som vil skje etter det under solen?

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for mennesket i dette livet, gjennom alle dagene av hans tomme liv som han tilbringer som en skygge? For hvem kan fortelle et menneske hva som vil skje etter ham under solen?

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for et menneske i dette livet, gjennom alle dagene av hans forgjeves liv, som han tilbringer som en skygge? For hvem kan fortelle et menneske hva som vil skje med ham etterpå under solen?

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for mennesket i dette livet, gjennom alle dagene av hans tomme liv som han tilbringer som en skygge? For hvem kan fortelle et menneske hva som vil skje etter ham under solen?

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for mennesket i livet, i alle de få dagene av hans forgjeves liv som han tilbringer som en skygge? Hvem kan fortelle mennesket hva som vil skje etter ham under solen?

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few days of their fleeting life? They pass like a shadow. Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Ecclesiastes.6.12", "source": "כִּ֣י מִֽי־יוֹדֵעַ֩ מַה־טּ֨וֹב לָֽאָדָ֜ם בַּֽחַיִּ֗ים מִסְפַּ֛ר יְמֵי־חַיֵּ֥י הֶבְל֖וֹ וְיַעֲשֵׂ֣ם כַּצֵּ֑ל אֲשֶׁר֙ מִֽי־יַגִּ֣יד לָֽאָדָ֔ם מַה־יִּהְיֶ֥ה אַחֲרָ֖יו תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃", "text": "For who-*yôḏēaʿ* what-*ṭṭôḇ* to-the-*lāʾāḏām* in-the-*baḥayyîm* *mispar* *yəmê*-*ḥayyê* *heḇlô* and-*yaʿăśēm* like-the-*kaṣṣēl*? *ʾăšer* who-*yaggîḏ* to-the-*lāʾāḏām* what-*yihyeh* *ʾaḥărāyw* *taḥaṯ* the-*haššāmeš*?", "grammar": { "*yôḏēaʿ*": "verb, Qal participle, masculine singular - knowing", "*ṭṭôḇ*": "adjective, masculine singular - good", "*lāʾāḏām*": "preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - to the man", "*baḥayyîm*": "preposition + definite article + noun, masculine plural - in the life", "*mispar*": "noun, masculine singular construct - number of", "*yəmê*": "noun, masculine plural construct - days of", "*ḥayyê*": "noun, masculine plural construct - life of", "*heḇlô*": "noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his vanity", "*yaʿăśēm*": "verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - he makes them", "*kaṣṣēl*": "preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - like the shadow", "*ʾăšer*": "relative pronoun - which/that", "*yaggîḏ*": "verb, Hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will tell", "*yihyeh*": "verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will be", "*ʾaḥărāyw*": "preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - after him", "*taḥaṯ*": "preposition - under", "*haššāmeš*": "definite article + noun, masculine singular - the sun" }, "variants": { "*ṭṭôḇ lāʾāḏām*": "good for man/beneficial for humanity", "*mispar yəmê-ḥayyê heḇlô*": "number of days of his vain life", "*yaʿăśēm kaṣṣēl*": "he spends them like a shadow/he makes them like a shadow", "*ʾaḥărāyw*": "after him/following him/when he is gone", "*taḥaṯ haššāmeš*": "under the sun (idiom for 'in this world')" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for mennesket i livet gjennom de få dagene av hans forgjengelige liv, som han tilbringer som en skygge? For hvem kan fortelle mennesket hva som vil skje etter ham under solen?

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi hvo veed, hvad Mennesket er godt i dette Liv, i hans Forfængeligheds Livs Dages Tal, hvilke han tilbringer som en Skygge? thi hvo vil kundgjøre et Menneske, hvad der skal skee efter ham under Solen?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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?

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for mennesket i dette livet, de få dagene av hans forgjeves liv som han bruker som en skygge? For hvem kan fortelle et menneske hva som skal komme etter ham under solen?

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for mennesket i livet, alle dagene av hans tomme liv som han lever som en skygge? For hvem kan fortelle et menneske hva som kommer etter ham under solen?

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for mennesket i livet, i de få dagene av hans forfengelighet, som forsvinner som en skygge? For hvem kan fortelle mennesket hva som skjer etter ham under solen?

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For hvem vet hva som er godt for mennesket i hans liv, gjennom alle dagene av hans forgjeves liv som han tilbringer som en skygge? For hvem kan fortelle et menneske hva som skal komme etter ham under solen?

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Hvem kan si hva som er godt for mennesket i livet, alle dagene av hans forfengelige liv, som han lever som en skygge? hvem kan fortelle hva som skal skje etter ham under solen?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  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?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  (7:2) For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For who knoweth what is good for man liuing in the dayes of his vayne life, whiche is but a shadowe? Or who wyl tell a man what shall happen after hym vnder the sunne?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For 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?

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  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?

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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?

• 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?

• World English Bible (2000)

  For 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?

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For no one knows what is best for a person during his life– during the few days of his fleeting life– for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.

Referenced Verses

• Job 14:2 : 2 He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.
• Eccl 3:22 : 22 Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?
• Lam 3:24-27 : 24 The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore I will hope in Him. 25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. 26 It is good that one should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. 27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.
• Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
• Eccl 8:7 : 7 For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?
• Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it will not be well with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days, which are like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
• Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
• Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.
• Ps 47:4 : 4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellence of Jacob whom He loved. Selah.
• Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?
• Ps 90:10-12 : 10 The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their strength is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath. 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
• Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
• Ps 109:23 : 23 I am gone like a shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down like the locust.
• Job 14:21 : 21 His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.
• Ps 4:6 : 6 There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.
• Ps 16:5 : 5 The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: You maintain my lot.
• Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I will see your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake with your likeness.
• Eccl 2:3 : 3 I searched in my heart to give myself to wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what is good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.
• 1 Chr 29:15 : 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 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)
• Eccl 9:6 : 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
• Eccl 12:13 : 13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
• Mic 6:8 : 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?