Surely no one knows the future, ¹  and no one can tell another person what will happen. ² 

biblegateway Ecc 8:7

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

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

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

biblegateway Ecc 8:7

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

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

bibleoremus Ecc 8:7

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

by ignorance of the future; who can tell him what it will bring?

biblegateway Ecc 8:7

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

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

biblegateway Ecc 8:7

Surely no one knows the future, ¹  and no one can tell another person what will happen. ² 

¹ tn Heb “what will be.”

² tn Heb “Who can tell him what will be?”