Ecclesiastes 6:12

The Future Is Inscrutable To Humans

¹¹ Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? ¹² 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?

On Earth

Under the Sun

What is Good

In The Future

No

Job 14:2

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

Wherefore 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 will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

James 4:14

Whereas ye know not what will be on the morrow: For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth 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 abiding.

Job 8:9

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Job 14:21

His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

Psalm 4:6

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

Psalm 16:5

The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

Psalm 17:15

As for me, I shall 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 hand-breadth; and my age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalm 47:4

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

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is: why hast thou made all men in vain?

Psalm 90:10-12

The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 109:23

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I sought in my heart, to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till 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 knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, hath now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

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.

Lamentations 3:24-27

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

Micah 6:8

He hath shown thee, O man, what is good; and what the LORD doth require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?