Ecclesiastes 8:7
For he does not know that which will be, for when it will be who declares to him?
Literal Standard 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 delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great on him.
Cross References
Esther 5:12And Haman says, “Indeed, Esther the queen brought none in with the king, to the feast that she made, except myself, and also for tomorrow I am called to her, with the king,
Proverbs 27:1Do not boast about tomorrow, || For you do not know what a day brings forth.
Ecclesiastes 3:22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it [is] his portion; for who brings him to look on that which is after him?
Ecclesiastes 9:1But all this I have laid to my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred does man know, the whole [is] before them.
Ecclesiastes 10:14And the fool multiplies words: “Man does not know that which is—And that which is after him, who declares to him?”
Matthew 24:50the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he does not expect, and in an hour of which he does not 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 →