What advantage has a man? for who knows [what is] good for a man in his life, [during] the number of the life of the days of his vanity? and he has spent them as a shadow; for who shall tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
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Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
Parallel Translations
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?
Cross References
James 4:14Job 14:2Ecclesiastes 3:22Psalms 144:4Lamentations 3:24–27Psalms 39:5–6Ecclesiastes 8:71 Chronicles 29:15Ecclesiastes 8:13Job 8:9Psalms 102:11Psalms 17:15Psalms 109:23Job 14:21Psalms 4:6
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