"Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man {is} great upon him." — Ecclesiastes 8:6

Ecclesiastes 8:6 · KJV

“Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man {is} great upon him.”

— Ecclesiastes 8:6

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. {shall...: Heb. shall know}

Verse 7

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? {when...: or, how it shall be?}

Ecclesiastes 8 — Context

Where the word of a king {is, there is} power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. {shall...: Heb. shall know}

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man {is} great upon him.

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? {when...: or, how it shall be?}

{There is} no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither {hath he} power in the day of death: and {there is} no discharge in {that} war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. {discharge: or, casting off weapons}

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:1

To every {thing there is} a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Ecclesiastes 3:17

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

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.

Luke 19:42-44

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.

Luke 17:26-30

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

Ecclesiastes 7:13-14

Consider the work of God: for who can make {that} straight, which he hath made crooked?

Isaiah 22:12-14

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these {things} God will bring thee into judgment.