Ecclesiastes 6:12

The Future Is Inscrutable To Humans

¹¹ For when there are many words, they increase futility. What is the advantage for man? ¹² For who knows what is good for man in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell man what will happen after him under the sun?

On Earth

Under the Sun

What is Good

In The Future

No

Job 14:2

He blossoms like a flower, then withers;
he flees like a shadow and does not last.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

I have seen that there is nothing better than for a person to enjoy his activities because that is his reward. For who can enable him to see what will happen after he dies?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

However, it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not lengthen their days like a shadow, for they are not reverent before God.

James 4:14

You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Job 8:9

since we were born only yesterday and know nothing.
Our days on earth are but a shadow.

Job 14:21

If his sons receive honor, he does not know it;
if they become insignificant, he is unaware of it.

Psalm 4:6

Many are saying, “Who can show us anything good?”
Look on us with favor, Lord.

Psalm 16:5

Lord, You are my portion
and my cup of blessing;
You hold my future.

Psalm 17:15

But I will see Your face in righteousness;
when I awake, I will be satisfied with Your presence.

Psalm 39:5-6

You, indeed, have made my days short in length,
and my life span as nothing in Your sight.
Yes, every mortal man is only a vapor.Selah

Psalm 47:4

He chooses for us our inheritance—
the pride of Jacob, whom He loves.Selah

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my life is.
Have You created everyone for nothing?

Psalm 90:10-12

Our lives last seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a lengthening shadow,
and I wither away like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I fade away like a lengthening shadow;
I am shaken off like a locust.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath;
his days are like a passing shadow.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I explored with my mind how to let my body enjoy life with wine and how to grasp folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what is good for people to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

Yet no one knows what will happen because who can tell him what will happen?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love, their hate, and their envy have already disappeared, and there is no longer a portion for them in all that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is: fear God and keep His commands, because this is for all humanity.

Lamentations 3:24-27

I say: The Lord is my portion,
therefore I will put my hope in Him.

Micah 6:8

Mankind, He has told you what is good
and what it is the Lord requires of you:
to act justly,
to love faithfulness,
and to walk humbly with your God.