Parallel Verses
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 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?
Topics
Interlinear
Yada`
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 8:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
No One Knows The Future
6
For
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few
Ecclesiastes 9:12
Moreover, man does not
Proverbs 24:22
And who knows the ruin that comes from both of them?
Ecclesiastes 10:14
Yet the
Proverbs 29:1
Will
Ecclesiastes 3:22
I have seen that
Matthew 24:44
Matthew 24:50
Matthew 25:6-13
1 Thessalonians 5:1-3
Now as to the