Ecclesiastes 8:7

Good News Translation

None of us knows what is going to happen, and there is no one to tell us.

Cross References

Esther 5:12

“What is more,” Haman went on, “Queen Esther gave a banquet for no one but the king and me, and we are invited back tomorrow.

Proverbs 24:22

such people could be ruined in a moment. Do you realize the disaster that God or the king can cause?

Proverbs 27:1

Never boast about tomorrow. You don't know what will happen between now and then.

Proverbs 29:1

If you get more stubborn every time you are corrected, one day you will be crushed and never recover.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool talks on and on. No one knows what is going to happen next, and no one can tell us what will happen after we die.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I realized then that the best thing we can do is enjoy what we have worked for. There is nothing else we can do. There is no way for us to know what will happen after we die.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

How can anyone know what is best for us in this short, useless life of ours—a life that passes like a shadow? How can we know what will happen in the world after we die?

Ecclesiastes 7:14

When things are going well for you, be glad, and when trouble comes, just remember: God sends both happiness and trouble; you never know what is going to happen next.

Ecclesiastes 9:1

I thought long and hard about all this and saw that God controls the actions of wise and righteous people, even their love and their hate. No one knows anything about what lies ahead.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

You never know when your time is coming. Like birds suddenly caught in a trap, like fish caught in a net, we are trapped at some evil moment when we least expect it.

Matthew 24:44

So then, you also must always be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you are not expecting him.

Matthew 24:50

Then that servant's master will come back one day when the servant does not expect him and at a time he does not know.