For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?Ecclesiastes 6:12 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleFor who knoweth what is good for man in this life - Those things which we deem good are often evil. And those which we think evil are often good. So ignorant are we, that we run the greatest hazard in making a choice. It is better to leave ourselves and our concerns in the hands of the Lord, than to keep them in our own.
For who can tell a man what shall be after him - Futurity is with God. While he lives, man wishes to know what is before him. When he is about to die, he wishes to know what will be after him. All this is vanity; God, because he is merciful, will reveal neither.
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who knoweth
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...
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 be many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift you up the light of your countenance on us.
Psalm 16:5 The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot.
Psalm 17:15 As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
Psalm 47:4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Lamentations 3:24-27 The LORD is my portion, said my soul; therefore will I hope in him...
Micah 6:8 He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy...
the days of his vain life
Ecclesiastes 8:13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.
Ecclesiastes 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished...
1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow...
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 is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
Psalm 39:5,6 Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you...
Psalm 89:47 Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?
Psalm 90:10-12 The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years...
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 as the locust.
Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time...
for who can
Ecclesiastes 3:22 Why I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion...
Ecclesiastes 8:7 For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
Job 14:21 His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.
Ecclesiastes 6:12 Parallel Commentaries
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