Ecclesiastes 6:10

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Ecclesiastes 6:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible

8 What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?

9 Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

10 Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.

11 For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone?

12 For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:10

Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

Ecclesiastes 3:15

What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.

Genesis 3:9

But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:18

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

Job 14:1

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Job 14:2

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Job 14:3

Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

Job 14:4

Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

Psalms 39:6

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Psalms 82:6

I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’

Psalms 82:7

But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”

Psalms 103:15

As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

Job 9:3

If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

Job 9:4

God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

Job 9:32

For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.

Job 33:13

Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

Job 40:2

“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?

Isaiah 45:10

Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”

Jeremiah 49:19

Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

Romans 9:19

One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

Romans 9:20

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”