Ecclesiastes 6:12
"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?"
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- 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."
Read in chapter → - Job 14:2
"He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not."
Read in chapter → - 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?"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 144:4
"Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 3:24
"The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - Job 8:9
"(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)"
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 8:7
"For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?"
Read in chapter → - 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."
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