Ecclesiastes 6:12
Who knows what's best for us and our lives? During our short lives that pass like shadows we have many unanswered questions. And who can tell us what will happen when we're gone?
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11For the more words you use, the harder it is to make sense. So what's the point?
Cross References
Job 8:9Our days on earth fade as quickly as a passing shadow.
Job 14:21Their children may become important or fall from their positions, but they don't know or see any of this.
Psalms 16:5Lord, you alone are all I have; you give me what I need; you safeguard my future.
Psalms 39:5Just look at the tiny amount of days you have given me! In your eyes my whole lifetime is like nothing. Our lives here are just a breath… Selah.
Psalms 89:47Remember me—my life is so short! Why did you bother creating futile humanity?
Psalms 102:11My life is fading away like a shadow that lengthens—I'm withering away 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 →