Ecclesiastes 8:7
“For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?”
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.
Cross-References
“A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?”
“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?”
“For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?”
“He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.”
“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,”