Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
For he has absolutely no knowledge what will happen, since who can declare to him when it will come about?
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
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?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Surely no one knows what will be, so who can tell anyone what will happen?
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
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Context Readings
No One Knows The Future
6 Indeed, there is an appropriate time and a response for every circumstance, since human misery weighs heavily upon him. 7 For he has absolutely no knowledge what will happen, since who can declare to him when it will come about? 8 Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
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Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:12
In addition, no human being knows his time: Like fish captured in a cruel net, or as birds caught in a snare, so also are human beings caught by bad timing that surprises them.
Proverbs 24:22
They will be destroyed suddenly, and who knows what kind of punishment will come from these two?
Ecclesiastes 10:14
The fool overflows with words, and no one can predict what will happen. As to what will happen after him, who can explain it?
Proverbs 29:1
After many rebukes, the stiff-necked man will be broken incurably, without any warning.
Ecclesiastes 3:22
I concluded that it is worthwhile for people to find joy in their accomplishments, because that is their inheritance, since who can see what will exist after them?
Matthew 24:44
So you, too, must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you are not expecting."
Matthew 24:50
that servant's master will come on a day when he doesn't expect him and at an hour that he doesn't know.
Matthew 25:6-13
But at midnight there came a shout: "The groom is here! Come out to meet him!'
1 Thessalonians 5:1-3
Now you do not need to have anything written to you about times and dates, brothers,