Ecclesiastes 6:12
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12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days(A) they pass through like a shadow?(B) Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
James 4:14
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14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(A)
Job 14:2
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Lamentations 3:24-27
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24 I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;(A)
therefore I will wait for him.”
Ecclesiastes 3:22
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22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work,(A) because that is their lot.(B) For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?
Psalm 144:4
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Psalm 39:5-6
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Footnotes
- Psalm 39:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
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13 Yet because the wicked do not fear God,(A) it will not go well with them, and their days(B) will not lengthen like a shadow.
Ecclesiastes 8:7
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7 Since no one knows the future,
who can tell someone else what is to come?
Job 14:21
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21 If their children are honored, they do not know it;
if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.(A)
Job 8:9
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1 Chronicles 29:15
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15 We are foreigners and strangers(A) in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow,(B) without hope.
Micah 6:8
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Ecclesiastes 12:13
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Ecclesiastes 9:6
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6 Their love, their hate
and their jealousy have long since vanished;
never again will they have a part
in anything that happens under the sun.(A)
Ecclesiastes 2:3
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3 I tried cheering myself with wine,(A) and embracing folly(B)—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.
Psalm 109:23
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23 I fade away like an evening shadow;(A)
I am shaken off like a locust.
Psalm 102:11
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Psalm 90:10-12
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10 Our days may come to seventy years,(A)
or eighty,(B) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,(C)
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.(D)
11 If only we knew the power of your anger!
Your wrath(E) is as great as the fear that is your due.(F)
12 Teach us to number our days,(G)
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.(H)
Psalm 89:47
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47 Remember how fleeting is my life.(A)
For what futility you have created all humanity!
Psalm 47:4
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Footnotes
- Psalm 47:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.
Psalm 17:15
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Psalm 16:5
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Psalm 4:6
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6 Many, Lord, are asking, “Who will bring us prosperity?”
Let the light of your face shine on us.(A)
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