Ecclesiastes 8:7
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
Context
This verse from Ecclesiastes Chapter 8 connects to 10 cross-references. Qohelet observes that humans lack the power to control wind or day of death, and that the wicked are buried with honor while the righteous are forgotten. Though there will be good for those who fear God, he acknowledges the …
תרגומים נוספים
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?
No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?
הפניות צולבות
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, …
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the …
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he …
Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that …
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour …
Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.