Ecclesiastes 8:7 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

English ASV

for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

English Amplified

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

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

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

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

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

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

English EASY 2024

Nobody knows what will happen in the future. Nobody can tell us about it.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

and you are not sure what will happen. No one can tell you what will happen in the future.

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

English GNT (Good News Translation)

None of us knows what is going to happen, and there is no one to tell us.

English God's Word - GW 1995

They don't know what the future will bring. So who can tell them how things will turn out?

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

If no one knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen?

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

For he does not know what is to be, for who can declare to him what is to come?

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

If no one knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen?

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

that he is ignorant of what is to come; for who will make known to him how it will be?

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Surely no one knows the future, and no one can tell another person what will happen.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

No one knows what lies ahead. So who can tell a person what's going to happen?

English NIV

Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come?

English NKJ 1982

For he does not know what will happen; So who can tell him when it will occur?

English NLT

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

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Indeed, they do not know what is to be, for who can tell them how it will be?

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

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

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

upon him; for how can he avoid what he doesn't know is going to happen?

English Tyndale 1537

And why? A man knoweth not what is for to come, for who will tell him?

Ecclesiastes 8:7 — Compare Translations