The Future Is Inscrutable To Humans

¹¹ Many things there be that increase vanity, and what hath a man else? ¹² For who knoweth what is good for man living, in the days of his vain life, which is but a shadow? Or, who will tell a man what shall happen after him under the Sun?

On Earth

Under the Sun

What is Good

In The Future

No

Job 14:2

He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

Wherefore I perceive, that there is nothing better for a man, than to be joyful in his labour, for that is his portion. But who will bring him to see the thing that shall come after him?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

Again, as for the ungodly, it shall not be well with him, neither shall he prolong his days: but even as a shadow, so shall he be that feareth not God.

James 4:14

and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding.

Job 8:9

For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow.

Job 14:21

Whether his children come to worship or no, he cannot tell: And if they be men of low degree, he knoweth not.

Psalm 4:6

There be 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 himself is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup; thou shalt maintain my lot.

Psalm 17:15

They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

Psalm 39:5-6

Behold, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah

Psalm 47:4

He shall choose out a heritage for us, even the worship of Jacob, whom he loved. Selah.

Psalm 89:47

O remember how short my time is; hast thou made all men for nought?

Psalm 90:10-12

The days of our age are threescore years and ten: and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

Psalm 102:11

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

Psalm 109:23

I go hence like the shadow that departeth, and am driven away as the grasshopper.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a thing of naught; his time passeth away like a shadow.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

So I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, to apply my mind unto wisdom, and to comprehend foolishness until the time that among all the things which are under the Sun, I might see what were best for men to do, so long as they live under heaven.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

And why? A man knoweth not what is for to come: for who will tell him?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

so that they be neither loved, hated nor envied: neither have they anymore part in the world, in all that is done under the Sun.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us hear the conclusion of all things: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for that toucheth all men;

Lamentations 3:24-27

"The LORD is my portion," sayeth my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

Micah 6:8

I will show thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requireth of thee: Namely, to do right, to have pleasure in loving-kindness, to be lowly, and to walk with thy God.