Parallel Verses

NET Bible

Surely no one knows the future, and no one can tell another person what will happen.

New American Standard Bible

If no one knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen?

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 because who can tell him 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?

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?

Interlinear

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נגד 
Nagad 
Usage: 370

Verse Info

Context Readings

No One Knows The Future

6 For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, for the oppression of the king is severe upon his victim. 7 Surely no one knows the future, and no one can tell another person what will happen. 8 Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.



Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For no one knows what is best for a person during his life -- during the few days of his fleeting life -- for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Surely, no one knows his appointed time! Like fish that are caught in a deadly net, and like birds that are caught in a snare -- just like them, all people are ensnared at an unfortunate time that falls upon them suddenly.

Proverbs 24:22

for suddenly their destruction will overtake them, and who knows the ruinous judgment both the Lord and the king can bring?

Ecclesiastes 10:14

yet a fool keeps on babbling. No one knows what will happen; who can tell him what will happen in the future?

Proverbs 29:1

The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I perceived there is nothing better than for people to enjoy their work, because that is their reward; for who can show them what the future holds?

Matthew 24:44

Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Matthew 24:50

then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee,

Matthew 25:6-13

But at midnight there was a shout, 'Look, the bridegroom is here! Come out to meet him.'

1 Thessalonians 5:1-3

Now on the topic of times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you.

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