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Ecclesiastes 6:12 (KJV)

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?

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1 Chronicles 29:15 - For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.
Job 8:9 - (For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)
Job 14:2 - He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Job 14:21 - His sons come to honour, and he knoweth [it] not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them.
Psalms 4:6 - [There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Psalms 16:5 - The LORD [is] the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Psalms 17:15 - As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Psalms 39:5 - Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 47:4 - He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Psalms 89:47 - Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Psalms 90:10 - The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Psalms 102:11 - My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Psalms 109:23 - I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Psalms 144:4 - Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.
Ecclesiastes 2:3 - I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 3:22 - Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Ecclesiastes 8:7 - For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
Ecclesiastes 8:13 - But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Ecclesiastes 9:6 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any [thing] that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 - Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.
Lamentations 3:24 - The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Micah 6:8 - He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
James 4:14 - Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

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