Ecclesiastes 8:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

Ecclesiastes 8:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 3:1
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Luke 19:42-44
Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. …
Luke 17:26-30
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-8)

Solomon had said (Eccl. 8:5) that a wise man’s heart discerns time and judgment, that is, a man’s wisdom will go a great way, by the blessing of God, in moral prognostications; but here he shows that few have that wisdom, and that even the wisest may yet be surprised by a calamity which they had not any foresight of, and therefore it is our wisdom to expect and prepare for sudden changes. Observe,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. therefore the misery, &c.--because the foolish sinner does not think of the right “times” and the “judgment.”