| Ecclesiastes 8:7 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | If no one knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen? (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | They don't know what the future will bring. So who can tell them how things will turn out?(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? |
| ASV: | for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be? |
| BBE: | No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be? |
| DBY: | for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be? |
| ERV: | for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be? |
| JPS: | For he knoweth not that which shall be; for even when it cometh to pass, who shall declare it unto him? |
| WBS: | For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? |
| WEB: | For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be? |
| YLT: | For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him? |
| Ecclesiastes 8:7 Cross References |
| XREF: | Ecclesiastes 3:22 I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his activities, for that is his lot. For who will bring him to see what will occur after him?
Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 7:14 In the day of prosperity be happy, But in the day of adversity consider-- God has made the one as well as the other So that man will not discover anything that will be after him.
Ecclesiastes 9:12 Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 8:7 For - Men are generally ignorant of future events, and therefore their minds are disquieted. |
| MHC: | 8:6-8 God has, in wisdom, kept away from us the knowledge of future events, that we may be always ready for changes. We must all die, no flight or hiding-place can save us, nor are there any weapons of effectual resistance. Ninety thousand die every day, upwards of sixty every minute, and one every moment. How solemn the thought! Oh that men were wise, that they understood these things, that they would consider their latter end! The believer alone is prepared to meet the solemn summons. Wickedness, by which men often escape human justice, cannot secure from death. |
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