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Ecclesiastes 8:7

for he knowith not thingis passid, and he mai not knowe bi ony messanger thingis to comynge.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Tyme and cesoun is to ech werk; and myche turment is of a man,

8It is not in the power of man to forbede the spirit, nethir he hath power in the dai of deth, nethir he is suffrid to haue reste, whanne the batel neiyeth; nethir wickidnesse schal saue a wickid man.

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Cross References

Esther 5:12And he seide after these thinges, Also the queen Hester clepide noon other man with the kyng to the feeste, outakun me, anentis `which queen Y schal ete also to morewe with the kyng.

Proverbs 27:1Haue thou not glorie on the morewe, `not knowynge what thing the dai to comynge schal bringe forth.

Ecclesiastes 3:22And Y perseyuede that no thing is betere, than that a man be glad in his werk, and that this be his part; for who schal brynge hym, that he knowe thingis that schulen come after hym?

Ecclesiastes 9:1I tretide alle these thingis in myn herte, to vndirstonde diligentli. Iust men, and wise men ben, and her werkis ben in the hond of God; and netheles a man noot, whether he is worthi of loue or of hatrede.

Ecclesiastes 10:14A fool multiplieth wordis; a man noot, what was bifore hym, and who mai schewe to hym that, that schal come aftir hym?

Matthew 24:50the lord of that seruaunt schal come in the dai which he hopith not, and in the our that he knowith not,

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