Ecclesiastes 6:10

The Message

Whatever happens, happens. Its destiny is fixed. You can’t argue with fate.

Cross References

Genesis 3:9

God called to the Man: “Where are you?”

Job 9:32

“God and I are not equals; I can’t bring a case against him. We’ll never enter a courtroom as peers. How I wish we had an arbitrator to step in and let me get on with life— To break God’s death grip on me, to free me from this terror so I could breathe again. Then I’d speak up and state my case boldly. As things stand, there is no way I can do it.”

Proverbs 21:30

Nothing clever, nothing conceived, nothing contrived, can get the better of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:15

Whatever was, is. Whatever will be, is. That’s how it always is with God.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

The more words that are spoken, the more smoke there is in the air. And who is any better off? And who knows what’s best for us as we live out our meager smoke-and-shadow lives? And who can tell any of us the next chapter of our lives?

Jeremiah 49:19

“Watch this: Like a lion coming up from the thick jungle of the Jordan Looking for prey in the mountain pastures, I will come upon Edom and pounce. I’ll take my pick of the flock—and who’s to stop me? The shepherds of Edom are helpless before me.”