Ecclesiastes 8:6
For to every purpose there is a time and decision, although the distress of man is great upon him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
In Context
7For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?
Cross References
Job 10:13Yet these things thou hid in thy heart. I know that this is with thee.
Job 33:19He also is chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones,
Ecclesiastes 3:11He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God. For who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked! [It is] ill [with him], for what his hands have done shall be done to him.
Luke 13:25From the time the house-ruler has risen up, and has closed the door, and ye begin to stand outside, and to knock the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and having answered, he will say to you, I know not where ye are from,
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 8:2-6
The Excellence of Wisdom; The Duty of Subjects. 1 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed. 2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God. 3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him. 4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? 5 Whoso keepeth the… Read the whole commentary →