Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?
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?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Surely no one knows what will be, so who can tell anyone what will happen?
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 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great on him. 7 For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be? 8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to keep the spirit; nor power in the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war; nor shall wickedness deliver its owners.
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Cross References
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also does not know his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
Proverbs 24:22
for their trouble shall rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin of them both?
Ecclesiastes 10:14
A fool also makes many words; a man knows not what they shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Proverbs 29:1
A man who hardens his neck when reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.
Ecclesiastes 3:22
Therefore I have seen that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?
Matthew 24:44
Therefore you also be ready, for in that hour you think not, the Son of Man comes.
Matthew 24:50
the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he does not look for Him, and in an hour which he does not know.
Matthew 25:6-13
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes! Go out to meet him.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-3
But of the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that I write to you.