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Ecclesiastes 8:7

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7For lhe knoweth not that which shall be: for mwho can tell him ||when it shall be?

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Footnotes

  1. lSo Prov. 24:22.
  2. mch. 6:12. & 10:14. So ch. 9:12. See ch. 3:22.
  3. ||Or, how it shall be?

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Since no one knows the future,

who can tell someone else what is to come?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Yet no one knows what will happen because who can tell him what will happen?

NLTNew Living Translation

Indeed, how can people avoid what they don’t know is going to happen?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Surely no one knows what will be,

so who can tell anyone what will happen?