Ecclesiastes 8:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ Indeed, they do not know what is to be, for who can tell them how it will be?

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.

Ecclesiastes 8:7 Cross References

Esther 5:12

Haman added, “Even Queen Esther let no one but myself come with the king to the banquet that she prepared. Tomorrow also I am invited by her, together with the king.

Proverbs 24:22

for disaster comes from them suddenly, and who knows the ruin that both can bring?

Proverbs 27:1

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

Proverbs 29:1

One who is often reproved, yet remains stubborn, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

yet fools talk on and on. No one knows what is to happen, and who can tell anyone what the future holds?

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that there is nothing better than that all should enjoy their work, for that is their lot; who can bring them to see what will be after them?

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for mortals while they live the few days of their vain life, which they pass like a shadow? For who can tell them what will be after them under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity, be joyful, and in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that mortals may not find out anything that comes after them.

Ecclesiastes 9:1

All this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate one does not know. Everything that confronts them

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.

Matthew 24:44

Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Matthew 24:50

the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know.