Ecclesiastes 8:7 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁷ 4 There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure, as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain.

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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

And when the king heard this, he said: What honour and reward hath Mardochai received for this fidelity? His servants and ministers said to him: He hath received no reward at all.

Proverbs 24:22

9 Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.

Proverbs 27:1

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.

Proverbs 29:1

Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise men turn away wrath.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

Considering I found also another vanity under the sun:

Ecclesiastes 6:12

Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

1 But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.

Ecclesiastes 9:1

At all times let thy garments be white, and let not oil depart from thy head.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a small and shortlived folly.

Matthew 24:44

THEN shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.

Matthew 24:50

Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.