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 examined in my heart to draw my flesh with wine, and my heart led in wisdom; and to lay hold upon folly till that I shall see what this good to the sons of man which they will do under the heavens the number of the days of their life.

We will hear the end of all the word: Fear thou God, and watch his commands: for this is all man.

Many saying, Who will cause us to see good? Lift up upon us the light of thy face, O Jehovah.

Jehovah the portion of my part and of my cup: thou didst hold up my lot.

I in justice shall see thy face: I shall be satisfied in awaking with thine appearance.

He will choose for us our inheritance, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Silence.

Jehovah my portion, said my soul; for this I will hope toward him.

He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God?

The days of his vain life

And it shall not be good to the unjust one; he shall not lengthen the days as a shadow, for he feared not from before the face of God.

Also their love, also their hatred, also their envy perished already; and no more portion to them forever in all which was done under the sun.

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.

(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)

And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.

Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.

Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?

The days of our years, in them seventy years; and if in strengths, eighty years, and their pride labor and vanity; for being soon cut off and we shall fly away.

My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.

As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.

Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.

(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)

For who can

And I saw that no good more than that man shall rejoice in his works; for this is his portion: for who shall bring him to look upon what shall be after him?

For he will not know what shall be: for as it shall be who shall announce to him?

His sons will be honored and he knew not: they will be brought low, and he will not understand for them.

General references

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity.