18 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Wisdom

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Chr 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.
• 1Chr 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.
• Eccl 1:4 — One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
• Eccl 2:3 — I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under t
• Eccl 2:3 — I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under t
• Eccl 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?
• Eccl 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?
• Eccl 7:15 — All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
• Eccl 8:7 — For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
• Eccl 8:7 — For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
• Eccl 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.
• Eccl 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.
• Eccl 9:6 — Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
• Eccl 9:6 — Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
• Eccl 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 th
• Eccl 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?
• Eccl 12:13 — Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
• Eccl 12:13 — Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
• Jas 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.
• Job 8:9 — (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
• Job 14:2 — He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
• Job 14:21 — His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
• Lam 3:24 — The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
• Ps 4:6 — There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
• Ps 17:15 — As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
• Ps 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.
• Ps 90:10 — The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
• Ps 102:11 — My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
• Ps 109:23 — I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
• Ps 144:4 — Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.