Ecclesiastes 8:7
World English Bible (WEB)
For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
In context
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 I have 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 every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
- KJV King James Version
- For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
- ASV American Standard Version
- for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?
- DBY Darby Translation
- for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
- WBS Webster Bible
- For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?