Ecclesiastes 8:6
Although people experience many troubles/difficulties, there is a right/correct time to do things, and there is a right/correct way to do them.
Translation for Translators
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
Cross References
Job 10:13“'But you ◄kept secret/did not reveal► what you were planning to do to me; I am certain that you were planning to do these things to me.
Job 33:19God also sometimes corrects us by forcing us to lie on our beds suffering much pain and with fever/aching in our bones.
Ecclesiastes 3:11God has appointed a time that is right/correct for everything to happen. He has also caused people to realize that there are things that will endure forever. But in spite of that, no one can completely understand everything that God has done, from the time that he starts doing things until he finishes them.
Ecclesiastes 7:13Think carefully about what God has done. Certainly no one can [RHQ] cause to become straight the things that God has caused to be crooked.
Isaiah 3:11But terrible things will happen to wicked people; they will be ◄paid back/punished► for the evil things that [MTY] they have done.
Luke 13:25God is like the owner of a house. Some day he will lock his door. Then some of you will begin to stand outside that door and knock. You will say, ‘Lord, open the door for us!’ But he will reply, ‘ No, I will not open it, because I do not know you, and I do not know where you are from!’
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 →