Teks -- Ecclesiastes 8:7 (NET)

8:7 Surely no one knows the future, and no one can tell another person what will happen.

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Wesley: Ecc 8:7 - For

Men are generally ignorant of future events, and therefore their minds are disquieted.

JFB: Ecc 8:7 - he

The sinner, by neglecting times (for example, "the accepted time, and the day of salvation, 2Co 6:2), is taken by surprise by the judgment (Ecc 3:22; Ecc 6:12; Ecc 9:12). The godly wise observe the due times of things (Ecc 3:1), and so, looking for the judgment, are not taken by surprise, though not knowing the precise "when" (1Th 5:2-4); they "know the time" to all saving purposes (Rom 13:11).

TSK: Ecc 8:7 - he knoweth // when

he knoweth : Ecc 6:12, Ecc 9:12, Ecc 10:14; Pro 24:22, Pro 29:1; Mat 24:44, Mat 24:50, Mat 25:6-13; 1Th 5:1-3

when : or, how

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Poole: Ecc 8:7 - Who can tell him?

Men are generally ignorant of all future events, and of the success of their endeavours, and therefore their minds are greatly disquieted, and their expectations frequently disappointed, and they fall into many mistakes and miscarriages, which they could and would prevent if they did foresee the issues of things.

Who can tell him? no wise man, no astrologer or other artist, can discover this.

Haydock: Ecc 8:7 - Past

Past. Protestants and Septuagint, "that shall be." (Haydock)

Gill: Ecc 8:7 - For he knoweth not that which shall be // for who can tell him when it shall be

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 Ecc 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.