Ecclesiastes 8:7
For no one knoweth what shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
Noyes Bible
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 a time and judgment. For the misery of man is great upon him.
Cross References
Proverbs 27:1Boast not thyself of to-morrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth!
Ecclesiastes 3:22And so I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his labors; for that is his portion. For who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Ecclesiastes 9:1For I gave my mind to all this, even to search out all this, that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God, and yet neither his love nor hatred doth any man know. All is before them.
Ecclesiastes 10:14A fool also multiplieth words, though no man knoweth what shall be; and who can tell him what shall be after him?
Matthew 24:50the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for it, and at an hour when he is not aware;
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 →