Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what [is] good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he makes them as a shadow? For who declares to man what is after him under the sun?
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In Context
11For there are many things multiplying vanity; What advantage [is] to man?
Cross References
Job 8:9For we [are] of yesterday, and we do not know, || For our days [are] a shadow on earth.
Job 14:21His sons are honored, and he does not know; And they are little, and he does not attend to them.
Psalms 16:5YHWH [is] the portion of my share, and of my cup, || You uphold my lot.
Psalms 39:5Behold, You have made my days handbreadths, || And my age [is] as nothing before You, || Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. Selah.
Psalms 89:47Remember how [short] my lifetime [is]. Why have You created in vain || All the sons of men?
Psalms 102:11My days [are] stretched out as a shadow, || And I am withered as the herb.
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 →