Ecclesiastes
King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 8:7
“For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?”
King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 8:7 Context
4Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? 5Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. 6Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. 7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? 8There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. 9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. 10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
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Translation Details for Ecclesiastes 8:7
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
Other Translations for Ecclesiastes 8:7
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Wesley's Notes for Ecclesiastes 8:7
8:7 For - Men are generally ignorant of future events, and therefore their minds are disquieted.
For hee knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him, when it shall be?
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
If no one knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
- American Standard Version (1901)
No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?
- Basic English Bible
Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
- Berean Standard Bible Bible
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
- Darby Bible
Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.
- Douay-Rheims Bible
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
- English Revised Version
For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
- World English Bible