Ecclesiastes 6:12
What advantage has a man? 1 For who knows what is good for a man in his life, 1 During the number of the life of the days of his vanity? 1 And he has spent them as a shadow; 1 For who shall tell a man 1 What shall be after him under the sun?
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
11For there are many things which increase vanity. 1
Cross References
Job 8:9(For we are of yesterday, and know nothing; 1 For our life upon the earth is a shadow): 1
Job 14:21And though his children be multiplied, he knows it not; 1 And if they be few, he is not aware. 1
Psalms 16:5Direct my steps in thy paths, 1 That my steps slip not. 1
Psalms 39:5Blessed is the man whose hope is the name of the Lord, 1 And who has not regarded vanities and false frenzies. 1
Psalms 102:11For as the heaven is high above the earth, 1 The Lord has so increased his mercy toward them that fear him. 1
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 →