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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Romans 11 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Proverbs 16 20 He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.
Psalms 34 12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Ecclesiastes 6 8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Proverbs 20 6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
1 Peter 3 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
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?
1 Corinthians 1 26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
Ecclesiastes 2 19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
1 Corinthians 2 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Ecclesiastes 8 1 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
Proverbs 8 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
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.
Proverbs 26 12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Isaiah 53 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
John 8 50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
Romans 7 18 For I know that in me that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Ecclesiastes 10 14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Ecclesiastes 11 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2 22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 8 7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
Jeremiah 17 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Romans 12 3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Matthew 13 43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Proverbs 19 8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
Proverbs 3 13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Psalms 69 32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
John 7 27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
1 Corinthians 7 16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
Psalms 144 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Romans 14 7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
Job 19 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Jeremiah 29 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Proverbs 24 12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Psalms 89 48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Ecclesiastes 2 16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
2 Timothy 1 9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
2 Corinthians 12 3 And I knew such a man, whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;
Psalms 103 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Ephesians 1 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Ecclesiastes 9 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Daniel 2 29 As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.
Proverbs 21 21 He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
Proverbs 24 14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
Daniel 12 3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
Proverbs 29 20 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Psalms 94 11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
1 Corinthians 4 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
Psalms 73 25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
Proverbs 28 10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.