Ecclesiastes 6:12 Cross References - Leeser

¹² For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, the number of the days of his vain life, that he should spend them as a shadow? for who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

¹⁵ For strangers are we before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: like a shadow are our days on the earth, and there is no hope of abiding.

⁹ For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because a mere shadow are our days upon earth;—

² Like a flower he cometh forth, and is cut down: and he fleeth like a shadow, and remaineth not.

²¹ His children acquire honor, but he knoweth it not: and they are esteemed little, but he perceiveth nothing of them.

^{6 (4:7)} Many say, “Who will show us happiness? Let shine brightly over us the light of thy countenance, O Lord.”

⁵ Thou, O Lord, art the portion of my inheritance, and my cup; thou hast drawn my lot.

¹⁵ As for me, in righteousness shall I behold thy face: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with contemplating thy likeness.

^{5 (39:6)} Behold, measured out with the span hast thou made my days; and my whole duration is nothing before thee: yea, as nothing but vanity doth every man stand here. Selah. ^{6 (39:7)} As nothing but a shadowy image doth man walk about, yea, for vanity only do all make a noise: he heapeth up his gains, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

^{4 (47:5)} He will choose for us our inheritance, the excellency of Jacob which he loveth. Selah.

^{47 (89:48)} Remember what I am, what my duration is here, for what nothingness thou hast created all sons of men!

¹⁰ The days of our years in this life are seventy years; and if by uncommon vigor they be eighty, yet is their greatness trouble and mishap; for it soon hasteneth off, and we fly away. ¹¹ Who knoweth the strength of thy anger, and thy wrath which is like the fear of thee? ¹² Let us then know how to number our days, that we may obtain a heart endowed with wisdom.

^{11 (102:12)} My days are like a shadow that declineth; and like the herb I wither.

²³ Like the shadow when it declineth do I hasten away: I am driven suddenly off like the locusts.

⁴ Man is like the breath: his days are like a passing shadow.

³ I resolved in my heart to indulge my body with wine, while my heart guideth itself with wisdom; and to lay fast hold on folly, till I might see what it is that is good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heavens during the number of the days of their life.

²² And so did I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who can bring him to look with pleasure on what will be after him?

⁷ For he knoweth not that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

¹³ And that it will not be well with the wicked, and that he will not endure many days, like the shadow; because he is not afraid of God.

⁶ Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, are now already lost; and they will have never more a portion in all that is done under the sun.

¹³ The end of the matter is, let us hear the whole: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

²⁴ The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I wait for him. ²⁵ The Lord is good unto those that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. ²⁶ It is good that one should wait and this in silence for the salvation of the Lord. ²⁷ It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth;

⁸ He hath told thee, O man, what is good; and what the Lord doth require of thee: nothing but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God.