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