King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 8:7
“For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 8
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man [is] great upon him.
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
[There is] no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
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