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


In Context

4 Since a king's word is supreme, who can say to him, "What are you doing?"

5 Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.

6 For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a man's misery weighs heavily upon him.

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

8 No man has power over the wind to contain it ; so no one has power over the day of his death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

9 All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others 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 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?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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