Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For he will not know what shall be: for as it shall be who shall announce to him?
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?
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
Verse Info
Context Readings
No One Knows The Future
6 To every inclination there is time and judgment; for man's evil is great upon him. 7 For he will not know what shall be: for as it shall be who shall announce to him? 8 No man having power in spirit to restrain the spirit: and no power in the day of death: and no sending forth in war; and injustice shall not deliver its possessors.
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Cross References
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For also man knew not his time: as the fishes being laid hold of in an evil net, and as the birds laid hold of in the snare, as they, the sons of men being snared for an evil time, as it will fall upon them suddenly.
Proverbs 24:22
For suddenly shall their calamity rise, and who shall make known the misfortune of them two?
Ecclesiastes 10:14
And the foolish one will multiply words: man shall not know what shall be; and what shall be after him, who shall announce to him?
Proverbs 29:1
A Man of reproofs hardening the neck, shall be suddenly broken, and no healing.
Ecclesiastes 3:22
And I saw that no good more than that man shall rejoice in his works; for this is his portion: for who shall bring him to look upon what shall be after him?
Matthew 24:44
Therefore be ye also prepared: for what hour ye think not, the Son of man comes.
Matthew 24:50
The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not,
Matthew 25:6-13
And in the middle of the night there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go ye forth to his meeting.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-3
And of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need to write to you.