Prediker 8:7

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

hij weet immers niet, wat het zijn zal; want hoe het zijn zal, wie zal het hem meedelen?

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
want hij weet niet, wat er geweest is, en wie zal hem zeggen, wat er worden zal?

Staten Vertaling
Want hij weet niet, wat er geschieden zal; want wie zal het hem te kennen geven, wanneer het geschieden zal?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he knoweth: Ecclesiastes 6:12, Ecclesiastes 9:12, Ecclesiastes 10:14, Proverbs 24:22, Proverbs 29:1, Matthew 24:44, Matthew 24:50, Matthew 25:6-13, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3

when: or, how

Reciprocal: Job 10:13 - hid Job 24:1 - seeing Ecclesiastes 3:22 - who Ecclesiastes 8:16 - When I

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he knoweth not that which shall be,.... Or that "it shall be" b; that he ever shall have the opportunity again he has lost, nor what is to come hereafter; what shall be on the morrow, or what shall befall him in the remaining part of his days; what troubles and sorrows he shall meet with, or what will be the case and circumstances of his family after his death;

for who can tell him when it shall be? or "how it shall be" c? how it will be with him or his; no one that pretends to judicial astrology, or to the art of divination, or any such devices, can tell him what is to come; future things are only certainly known by God; none but he can tell what will certainly come to pass; see Ecclesiastes 3:22; Jarchi interprets it of a man's not considering for what God will bring him to judgment, and that no man can tell him the vengeance and punishment that will be inflicted.

b מה שיהיה "quod futurum est", Pagninus, Montanus. c כאשר יהיה "quo modo", Junius & Tremellius, Gejerus, Rambachius, so Broughton.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When - Or, as in the margin. For the meaning of this verse, compare marginal references.