Ecclesiastes 8:7
No one knows what's going to happen, so who can say what the future holds?
Free Bible 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 there's a right time and a right way for everything, even when things are going badly for you.
Cross References
Esther 5:12“Added to all that,” Haman went on, “I was the only other person Queen Esther invited to come to a dinner she had prepared for the king. I'm also invited by her to eat together with the king tomorrow.”
Proverbs 27:1Don't boast about what you're going to do tomorrow, because you don't know what the day may bring.
Ecclesiastes 3:22So I concluded that there's nothing better than for people to enjoy their work. This is what we are meant to do. For who can bring anyone back from the dead to show them what will happen after they die?
Ecclesiastes 9:1I had my mind consider all this. Wise and good people and everything they do are in God's hands. Love or hate—who knows what will happen to them?
Ecclesiastes 10:14Fools talk on and on, however no one knows what's going to happen, so who can say what the future holds?
Matthew 24:50Then that servant's master will return when the man doesn't expect him, at a time he doesn't know.
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 →