Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

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?

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?

Interlinear

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נגד 
Nagad 
Usage: 370

Verse Info

Context Readings

No One Knows The Future

6 For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him. 7 For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him? 8 There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.



Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

Proverbs 24:22

For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both -- who knoweth!

Ecclesiastes 10:14

And the fool multiplieth words: 'Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'

Proverbs 29:1

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it is his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

Matthew 24:44

because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come.

Matthew 24:50

the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know,

Matthew 25:6-13

and in the middle of the night a cry was made, Lo, the bridegroom doth come; go ye forth to meet him.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-3

And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you,

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