6Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
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.
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.
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. …
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. …
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…
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