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Ecclesiastes 8:7

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For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

For he knoweth {H3045} not that which shall be: for who can tell {H5046} him when it shall be?

by uncertainty over the future; even when the event takes place, who will tell them about it?

Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

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Cross-References

  • Ecclesiastes 10:14 (7 votes)

    A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

  • Matthew 24:50 (4 votes)

    The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for [him], and in an hour that he is not aware of,

  • Ecclesiastes 9:12 (4 votes)

    For man also knoweth not 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 falleth suddenly upon them.

  • Proverbs 24:22 (4 votes)

    For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

  • Matthew 25:6 (3 votes)

    And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

  • Matthew 25:13 (3 votes)

    Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

  • Ecclesiastes 6:12 (3 votes)

    For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?