Ecclesiastes 8:7
For there is no one that knows what is going to be: for who shall tell him how it shall be?
Brenton Septuagint
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 thing there is time and judgment; for the knowledge of a man is great to him.
Cross References
Proverbs 27:1Boast not of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what the next day shall bring forth.
Ecclesiastes 3:22And I saw that there was no good, but that wherein a man shall rejoice in his works, for it is his portion, for who shall bring him to see any thing of that which shall be after him?
Ecclesiastes 9:1I saw that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: yea, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, though all are before their face.
Ecclesiastes 10:14A fool moreover multiplies words: man knows not what has been, nor what will be: who shall tell him what will come after him?
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 →