Verse List for ECC 8:7

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) No one knows what the future will bring ⇔ so no one can tell you what will happen next.

OET-LV If/because not_he is_knowing what (that)_will_it _be if/because just_as it _will _be who will _he _tell to_him/it.

ULT for, he is not knowing whatever that will be, for, when it will be— ⇔  who will declare, it to him?

UST One of the most lamentable of these realities is that the events of the future are inscrutable to human beings. ⇔  After all, no human can foresee the future well enough to tell others about it in advance.

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

OEB No OEB ECC book available

WEBBE & WMBB For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

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

LSV For he does not know that which will be, for when it will be who declares to him?

FBV No one knows what's going to happen, so who can say what the future holds?

T4T ⇔  No one knows what will happen in the future, ⇔  so there is no one [RHQ] who can tell us what is going to happen.

LEB
• Surely no one knows what will be,
• so who can tell anyone what will happen?

BBE No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

Moff No one knows what a king may do, and none can tell when he will do it.

JPS For he knoweth not that which shall be; for even when it cometh to pass, who shall declare it unto him?

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

DRA Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.

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

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

RV for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
(for he knoweth/knows not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?)

SLT For he will not know what shall be: for as it shall be who shall announce to him?

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

KJB-1769 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?[fn]
(For he knoweth/knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?)

KJB-1611 [fn]For hee knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him, when it shall be?
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

Bshps And why? a man knoweth not what is for to come: for who can tell hym when it shalbe?
(And why? a man knoweth/knows not what is for to come: for who can tell him when it shalbe?)

Gnva For he knoweth not that which shalbe: for who can tell him when it shalbe?
(For he knoweth/knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shalbe?)

Cvdl And why? a man knoweth not what is for to come, for who wyll tell him?
(And why? a man knoweth/knows not what is for to come, for who will tell him?)

Wycl for he knowith not thingis passid, and he mai not knowe bi ony messanger thingis to comynge.
(for he knoweth/knows not things passed, and he may not know by any messenger things to coming.)

Luth Denn er weiß nicht, was gewesen ist; und wer will ihm sagen, was werden soll?
(Because he white not, what/which been is; and who will him say, what/which become should?)

ClVg quia ignorat præterita, et futura nullo scire potest nuntio.
(because he/she_doesn’t_know past_tense, and the_future with_no_one to_know can nuntio.)

UHB כִּֽי־אֵינֶ֥⁠נּוּ יֹדֵ֖עַ מַה־שֶּׁ⁠יִּֽהְיֶ֑ה כִּ֚י כַּ⁠אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִֽהְיֶ֔ה מִ֖י יַגִּ֥יד לֽ⁠וֹ׃ ‡

BrLXX Ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι γινώσκων τί τὸ ἐσόμενον, ὅτι καθὼς ἔσται, τίς ἀναγγελεῖ αὐτῷ;

BrTr For there is no one that knows what is going to be: for who shall tell him how it shall be?