Verse 12

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?

Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:2 : 2 As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
  • Eccl 3:22 : 22 And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?
  • Lam 3:24-27 : 24 My portion `is' Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him. 25 Good `is' Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul `that' seeketh Him. 26 Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah. 27 Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
  • Eccl 8:7 : 7 For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age `is' as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity `is' every man set up. Selah. 6 Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.
  • Ps 47:4 : 4 He doth choose for us our inheritance, The excellency of Jacob that He loves. Selah.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
  • Ps 90:10-12 : 10 Days of our years, in them `are' seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet `is' their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath? 12 To number our days aright let `us' know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days as a shadow `are' stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.
  • Job 14:21 : 21 Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 Many are saying, `Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah,
  • Ps 16:5 : 5 Jehovah `is' the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou -- Thou dost uphold my lot.
  • Ps 17:15 : 15 I -- in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, `with' Thy form!
  • Eccl 2:3 : 3 I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where `is' this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 for sojourners we `are' before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow `are' our days on the land, and there is none abiding.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For of yesterday we `are', and we know not, For a shadow `are' our days on earth.)
  • Eccl 9:6 : 6 Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun.
  • Eccl 12:13 : 13 The end of the whole matter let us hear: -- `Fear God, and keep His commands, for this `is' the whole of man.
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He hath declared to thee, O man, what `is' good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?