Ecclesiastes 8:6
For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
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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
7For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
Cross References
Job 10:13Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
Job 33:19“He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,
Ecclesiastes 3:11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them.
Luke 13:25When once the master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come 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 →