Ecclesiastes 6:12

The Future Is Inscrutable To Humans

¹¹ For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a man? ¹² For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

On Earth

Under the Sun

What is Good

In The Future

No

Job 14:2

“Like a flower he comes forth and withers.
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his activities, for that is his lot. For who will bring him to see what will occur after him?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not be well for the evil man and he will not lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God.

James 4:14

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Job 8:9

“For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are as a shadow.

Job 14:21

“His sons achieve honor, but he does not know it;
Or they become insignificant, but he does not perceive it.

Psalm 4:6

Many are saying, “Who will show us any good?”
Lift up the light of Your countenance upon us, O Lord!

Psalm 16:5

The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup;
You support my lot.

Psalm 17:15

As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness;
I will be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake.

Psalm 39:5-6

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

Psalm 47:4

He chooses our inheritance for us,
The glory of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.

Psalm 89:47

Remember what my span of life is;
For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

Psalm 90:10-12

As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, eighty years,
Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow;
For soon it is gone and we fly away.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a lengthened shadow,
And I wither away like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like the locust.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a mere breath;
His days are like a passing shadow.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I explored with my mind how to stimulate my body with wine while my mind was guiding me wisely, and how to take hold of folly, until I could see what good there is for the sons of men to do under heaven the few years of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

If no one knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.

Lamentations 3:24-27

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I have hope in Him.”

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God?