Ecclesiastes 8:7

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Ecclesiastes 8:7

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

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KJV

King James Version

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

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WEB

World English Bible

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

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ASV

American Standard Version

for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Ecclesiastes 8

⁵ Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.

⁶ For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.

⁷ Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

⁸ As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

⁹ All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.

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