Ecclesiastes 8:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 8:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 10:14
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Proverbs 24:22
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Matthew 24:50
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,
Ecclesiastes 3:22
Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

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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. 7)

7. he--the sinner, by neglecting times (for example, “the accepted time, and the day of salvation, 2Co 6:2), is taken by surprise by the judgment (Ec 3:22; 6:12; 9:12). The godly wise observe the due times of things (Ec 3:1), and so, looking for the judgment, are not taken by surprise, though not knowing the precise “when” (1Th 5:2-4); they “know the time” to all saving purposes (Ro 13:11).