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
General references
Bible References
Who knoweth
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I searched in my heart how to cherish my flesh with wine, while practising my heart with wisdom; and how to lay hold on folly, till I should see what was that good for the children of men which they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.
Psalm 4:6
Many say, Who shall cause us to see good? Lift up upon us the light of thy countenance, O Jehovah.
Psalm 16:5
Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Psalm 47:4
He hath chosen our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Lamentations 3:24
Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Micah 6:8
He hath shewn thee, O man, what is good: and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with thy God?
The days of his vain life
Ecclesiastes 8:13
but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days as a shadow, because he feareth not before God.
Ecclesiastes 9:6
Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope of life.
Job 8:9
For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 89:47
Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
Psalm 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
Psalm 109:23
I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;
Psalm 144:4
Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
James 4:14
ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, (for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)
For who can
Ecclesiastes 3:22
And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Ecclesiastes 8:7
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
Job 14:21
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not.
General references
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is vanity.