Ecclesiastes 8:6

New English Translation

For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, for the oppression of the king is severe upon his victim.

Cross References

Job 10:13

“But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

Job 33:17

to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person’s pride.

Job 33:19

Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 3:17

I thought to myself, “God will judge both the righteous and the wicked; for there is an appropriate time for every activity, and there is a time of judgment for every deed.

Luke 13:25

Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him, ‘Lord, let us in!’ But he will answer you, ‘I don’t know where you come from.’