7For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?


In Context

4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say to him, What do you?

5 Whoever keeps the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerns both time and judgment.

6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great on him.

7 For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

8 There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man rules over another to his own hurt.

Ecclesiastes 8:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:7Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:7Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:7for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:7for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?