Ecclesiastes 6:12

The Future Is Inscrutable To Humans

¹¹ Certainly the many words multiply vanity, what more does man have? 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

He comes forth like an open flower and is cut down; he flees as a shadow and does not remain.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a 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 8:13

but it shall never be well with the wicked, neither shall his days be prolonged, which are as a shadow, because he did not fear before the presence of God.

James 4:14

and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

1 Chronicles 29:15

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

Job 8:9

for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow.

Job 14:21

His sons shall be honoured and he shall not know of it; or they shall be afflicted, but he shall not perceive of them.

Psalm 4:6

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

Psalm 16:5

The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup; thou dost maintain 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 39:5-6

Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalm 47:4

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is; why hast thou made all men subject to vanity?

Psalm 90:10-12

The days of our years are seventy, and of the most valiant eighty years, yet their strength is labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I am gone like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down by the wind as the locust.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I proposed in my heart to regale my flesh with wine and that my heart would walk in wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

for he does not know that which shall be; nor when it shall be. Who will teach it to him?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Even their love and their hatred and their envy is now perished; neither have they any more a portion in the age in any thing that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

The conclusion of the entire sermon is heard: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole happiness of man.

Lamentations 3:24-27

Chet The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore I will wait for him.

Micah 6:8

He has declared unto thee, O man, what is good and what the LORD requires of thee: only to do right judgment, and to love mercy, and to humble thyself to walk with thy God.