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 sought in my heart to drag my flesh with wine, yet leading my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see where the good for the sons of men might be, what they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God, and keep His commandments. For this is the whole duty of man.
Psalm 4:6
There are many who say, Who will show us any good? Jehovah, lift up the light of Your face on us.
Psalm 16:5
Jehovah is the portion of my inheritance, and of my cup; You shall uphold my lot.
Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with Your image.
Psalm 47:4
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the majesty of Jacob whom He loved. Selah.
Lamentations 3:24
Jehovah is my portion, says my soul; therefore I will hope in Him.
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God?
The days of his vain life
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, nor shall he make his days longer like a shadow; because he does not fear before God.
Ecclesiastes 9:6
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; nor do they any longer have a part forever in all that is done under the sun.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before You, and pilgrims, as our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and none abides.
Job 8:9
for we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.
Job 14:2
He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man standing is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 89:47
Remember, I pray, how short my time is; why have You made all men in vain?
Psalm 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by strength they are fourscore years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a shadow stretched out; and I wither like grass.
Psalm 109:23
As a shadow when it is stretched out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes away.
James 4:14
who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears.
For who can
Ecclesiastes 3:22
Therefore I have seen that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?
Ecclesiastes 8:7
For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?
Job 14:21
His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; they fall, but he does not mark it.
General references
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.