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


In Context

4 for the king's word is supreme. Who can say to him, |What are you doing?|

5 Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.

6 For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

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

8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

9 All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his 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 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?