Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Surely no one knows what will be, so who can tell anyone what will happen?
New American Standard Bible
If no one
King James Version
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
Holman Bible
Yet no one knows what will happen
International Standard Version
For he has absolutely no knowledge what will happen, since who can declare to him when it will come about?
A Conservative Version
For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?
American Standard Version
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
Amplified
For no one knows what will happen;
So who can tell him how and when it will happen?
Bible in Basic English
No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?
Darby Translation
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
Julia Smith Translation
For he will not know what shall be: for as it shall be who shall announce to him?
King James 2000
For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
Modern King James verseion
For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And why? A man knoweth not what is for to come: for who will tell him?
NET Bible
Surely no one knows the future, and no one can tell another person what will happen.
New Heart English Bible
For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
The Emphasized Bible
For there is no one who knoweth what shall be, for, when it shall be, who will tell him?
Webster
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
World English Bible
For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
Youngs Literal Translation
For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 8:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
No One Knows The Future
6 For there is a [proper] time and right [procedure] for every matter, even though the trouble of man [weighs] heavy upon him. 7 Surely no one knows what will be, so who can tell anyone what will happen? 8 Just as no one can control the wind to restrain the wind, so also no one can control the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not deliver the wicked.
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Cross References
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what [is] good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future} under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also {humans} are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them.
Proverbs 24:22
For suddenly their disaster will come, and the ruin of {both of them}, who knows?
Ecclesiastes 10:14
The fool {talks too much}, for no one knows what will be. Who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future}?
Proverbs 29:1
A man who is reproved, being stubborn of neck-- suddenly he will be broken, and there will not be healing.
Ecclesiastes 3:22
So I concluded that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy [the fruit of] his labor, for this is his lot in life. {For no one knows what will happen in the future.}
Matthew 24:44
For this [reason] you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think [he will come].
Matthew 24:50
the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and at an hour that he does not know,
Matthew 25:6-13
But in the middle of the night there was a shout, 'Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!'
1 Thessalonians 5:1-3
Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need [of anything] to be written to you,