Ecclesiastes 8:6
For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great on him.
Literal Standard 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
5Whoever is keeping a command knows no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knows.
7For he does not know that which will be, for when it will be who declares to him?
Cross References
Job 10:13And these You have laid up in Your heart, I have known that this [is] with You.
Job 33:19And he has been reproved || With pain on his bed, || And the strife of his bones [is] enduring.
Ecclesiastes 3:11The whole He has made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He has put in their heart without which man does not find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Ecclesiastes 7:13See the work of God, || For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked—evil, || Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
Luke 13:25from the time the Master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and you may begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and He answering will say to you, I have not known you from where you are,
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 →