Ecclesiastes 8:7 “Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?”

Ecclesiastes 8:7

Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

World English Bible

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

American Standard Version

for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

Geneva Bible 1599

For he knoweth not that which shalbe: for who can tell him when it shalbe?

Darby Translation

for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

Young's Literal Translation

For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

Bible in Basic English

No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

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Cross references

“he knoweth”

Ecclesiastes 10:14 Ecclesiastes 6:12 Ecclesiastes 9:12 Proverbs 24:22 Matthew 24:50 Matthew 24:44

Ecclesiastes 10:14 · BSB

Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

Ecclesiastes 6:12 · BSB

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?

Ecclesiastes 9:12 · BSB

For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.

Proverbs 24:22 · BSB

For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?

Matthew 24:50 · BSB

The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate.

Matthew 24:44 · BSB

For this reason, you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.

Also

Ecclesiastes 3:22

Ecclesiastes 3:22 · BSB

I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.

8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Read Ecclesiastes 8