Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
11For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?
Cross References
Job 8:9For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
Job 14:21His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not.
Psalms 16:5Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 89:47Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
Psalms 102:11My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 6:12
The Insatiableness of Desire. 11 Seeing there be 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? Here, 1. Solomon lays down his conclusion which he had undertaken to prove, as that which was fully confirmed by the foregoing discourse: There be many things that increase vanity; the life of man is vain, at the best, and there are… Read the whole commentary →