who knoweth

Ecclesiastes 2:3
My mind, all the while guiding me with wisdom, sought to cheer my body with wine and embrace folly, until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 12:13
When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

Psalm 4:6
Many ask, "Who can show us the good?" Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.

Psalm 16:5
The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.

Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied with Your presence.

Psalm 47:4
He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah

Lamentations 3:24-27
"The LORD is my portion, " says my soul, "therefore I will hope in Him." . . .

Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mankind, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

the days of his vain life

Ecclesiastes 8:13
Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

Ecclesiastes 9:6
Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a portion in all that is done under the sun.

1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are foreigners and sojourners in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Job 8:9
For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

Job 14:2
Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Psalm 39:5, 6
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah . . .

Psalm 89:47
Remember how short is my lifespan. For what futility You have created all men!

Psalm 90:10-12
The length of our days is seventy years--or eighty if we are strong--yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. . . .

Psalm 102:11
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

Psalm 109:23
I am fading 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.

James 4:14
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

for who can

Ecclesiastes 3:22
I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?

Ecclesiastes 8:7
Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

Job 14:21
If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.