Ecclesiastes 8:7
For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
In Context
6For to every purpose there is a time and decision, although the distress of man is great upon him.
Cross References
Esther 5:12Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself, and tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.
Proverbs 27:1Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou know not what a day may bring forth.
Ecclesiastes 3:22Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion. For who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.
Ecclesiastes 10:14A fool also multiplies words; [yet] man knows not what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
Matthew 24:50the lord of that bondman will come in a day that he does not expect, and in an hour that he is not aware,
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 8:7-9
The Certainty of Death. 6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. 7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? 8 There 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. Solomon had said ( v. 5 ) that a wise man's heart discerns time and judgment, that is, a man's… Read the whole commentary →