Ecclesiastes 8:7
For he knoweth not that which shalbe: for who can tell him when it shalbe?
Geneva Bible 1599
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 euery purpose there is a time and iudgement, because the miserie of man is great vpon him.
Cross References
Esther 5:12Haman sayde moreouer, Yea, Ester the Queene did let no man come in with the King to the banket that she had prepared, saue me: and to morowe am I bidden vnto her also with the King.
Proverbs 27:1Boast not thy selfe of to morowe: for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Ecclesiastes 3:22Therefore I see that there is nothing better then that a man shoulde reioyce in his affaires, because that is his portion. For who shall bring him to see what shalbe after him?
Ecclesiastes 9:1I have surely giuen mine heart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth eyther loue or hatred of all that is before them.
Ecclesiastes 10:14For the foole multiplieth woordes, saying, Man knoweth not what shall be: and who can tell him what shall be after him?
Matthew 24:50That seruaunts master will come in a day, when he looketh not for him, and in an houre that he is not ware of,
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 →