Ecclesiastes 8:7
Good News Translation
None of us knows what is going to happen, and there is no one to tell us.

New Revised Standard Version
Indeed, they do not know what is to be, for who can tell them how it will be?

Contemporary English Version
though no one can tell the future.

New American Bible
that they are ignorant of what is to come; for who will make known to them how it will be?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.

he knoweth

Ecclesiastes 6:12 What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 9:12 Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.

Ecclesiastes 10:14 A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Proverbs 24:22 For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both?

Proverbs 29:1 The man that with a stiff neck despiseth him that reproveth him, shall suddenly be destroyed: and health shall not follow him.

Matthew 24:44,50 Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come. . . .

Matthew 25:6-13 And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom cometh. Go ye forth to meet him. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 But of the times and moments, brethren, you need not, that we should write to you: . . .

when

Context
Obey the King
6There is a time and opportunity for every business, and great affliction for man: 7Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.8It is not in man's power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 3:22
And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 6:12
What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:14
In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.

Ecclesiastes 9:12
Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.

Ecclesiastes 10:14
A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Ecclesiastes 8:6
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