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?
Ps 102.11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. ;
Ps 109.23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. ;
Ps 144.4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. ;
Iac 4.14Whereas 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. ;
Ps 39.6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. ;
Ecl 8.7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? ;