Ecclesiastes 8:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁷ Yet no one knows what will happen  because who can tell him what will happen?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how and when it will be?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

Common English Bible

⁷ because no one knows what will happen, and no one can say when something might happen.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For he is ignorant of the past, and he is able to know nothing of the future by means of a messenger.

Ecclesiastes 8:7 Cross References

Esther 5:12

‘What’s more,’ Haman added, ‘Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she had prepared. I am invited again tomorrow to join her with the king.

Proverbs 24:22

for destruction will come suddenly from them; who knows what distress these two can bring?

Proverbs 27:1

Don’t boast about tomorrow, for you don’t know what a day might bring.

Proverbs 29:1

One who becomes stiff-necked, after many reprimands will be shattered instantly – beyond recovery.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what will happen, and who can tell anyone what will happen after him?

Ecclesiastes 3:22

I have seen that there is nothing better than for a person to enjoy his activities  because that is his reward. For who can enable him to see what will happen after he dies?  ,

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for anyone in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow?  Who can tell anyone what will happen after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful,  but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other,  so that no one can discover anything that will come after him.

Ecclesiastes 9:1

Indeed, I took all this to heart and explained it all: The righteous, the wise, and their works are in God’s hands.  People don’t know whether to expect love or hate. Everything lies ahead of them.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For certainly no one knows his time:  like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap,  so people are trapped in an evil time  as it suddenly falls on them.

Matthew 24:44

This is why you are also to be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Matthew 24:50

that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know.