Ecclesiastes 6:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Who knoweth

The days of his vain life

For who can

Ecclesiastes 3:22

Ecclesiastes 8:7

Job 14:21

General references

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Bible References

Who knoweth

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

The days of his vain life

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

Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

For 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.

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

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

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

Whereas 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.

For who can

Therefore 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?

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

His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

General references

"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher. "All is vanity!"