GOD'S WORD® Translation
They don't know what the future will bring. So who can tell them how things will turn out?

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

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

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

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

King James Bible
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?

Young's Literal Translation
For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

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