‘What’s more,’ Haman added, ‘Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she had prepared. I am invited again tomorrow to join her with the king.
Ecclesiastes 8:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Yet no one knows what will happen because who can tell him what will happen? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how and when it will be? American Standard Version (1901) for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be? Common English Bible because no one knows what will happen, and no one can say when something might happen. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger. |
‘What’s more,’ Haman added, ‘Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she had prepared. I am invited again tomorrow to join her with the king.
for destruction will come suddenly from them; who knows what distress these two can bring?
Don’t boast about tomorrow, for you don’t know what a day might bring.
One who becomes stiff-necked, after many reprimands will be shattered instantly – beyond recovery.
yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what will happen, and who can tell anyone what will happen after him?
I have seen that there is nothing better than for a person to enjoy his activities because that is his reward. For who can enable him to see what will happen after he dies? ,
For who knows what is good for anyone in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell anyone what will happen after him under the sun?
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that no one can discover anything that will come after him.
Indeed, I took all this to heart and explained it all: The righteous, the wise, and their works are in God’s hands. People don’t know whether to expect love or hate. Everything lies ahead of them.
For certainly no one knows his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.
This is why you are also to be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know.