Ecclesiastes 8:6

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Summary

Ecclesiastes 8:6

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

To every

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Therefore

General references

Proverbs 15:22

Bible References

To every

There is a season (a time appointed) for everything and a time for every delight and event or purpose under heaven—

Consider the work of God:
Who can make straight what He has bent?

Therefore

Rejoice, young man, in your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant in the days of your young manhood. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the desires of your eyes, but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

Remember [thoughtfully] also your Creator in the days of your youth [for you are not your own, but His], before the evil days come or the years draw near when you will say [of physical pleasures], “I have no enjoyment and delight in them”;

Woe (judgment is coming) to the wicked! It shall go badly with him,
For what his hand has done shall be done to him.

Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to mourning,
To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth [in humiliation].

Once the head of the house gets up and closes the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door [again and again], saying, ‘Lord, open to us!’ then He will answer you, ‘I do not know where you are from [for you are not of My household].’

And just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the time of [the second coming of] the Son of Man:

saying, “If [only] you had known on this day [of salvation], even you, the things which make for peace [and on which peace depends]! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,

“Today if you hear His voice,

General references

Without consultation and wise advice, plans are frustrated,
But with many counselors they are established and succeed.