King James Version
Ecclesiastes 8:6
6Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
Ecclesiastes 8:6 in other versions
- New International Version (NIV)For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person may be weighed down by misery.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Because for every matter there is a time and judgment, Though the misery of man increases greatly.
- New Living Translation (NLT)for there is a time and a way for everything, even when a person is in trouble.
Context of Ecclesiastes 8:6
4Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? 5Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment. Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. 7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? 8There 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.
Read all of Ecclesiastes 8Ecclesiastes 8:6 word by word
כִּ֣י לְכָל־חֵ֔פֶץ יֵ֖שׁ עֵ֣ת וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט כִּֽי־רָעַ֥ת הָאָדָ֖ם רַבָּ֥ה עָלָֽיו׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Ecclesiastes 8:6
- Ecclesiastes 3:1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
- Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
- Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, 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.
- Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
- Isaiah 3:11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
- Isaiah 22:12And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
- Luke 13:25When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
- Luke 17:26And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
- Luke 19:42Saying, 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.
- Hebrews 3:7Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 8:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6To every purpose there is time - חפץ chaphets, every volition, every thing that depends on the will of man. He has generally the opportunity to do whatever he purposes; and as his purposes are frequently evil, his acts are so too: and in consequence his misery is great.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Because, therefore - , Or, as in Ecclesiastes 8:7, “for.” The possibility of God‘s time and judgment being in opposition to a king‘s purpose or commandment Ecclesiastes 8:5, suggests the thought that such discord is a misery (evil, Ecclesiastes 6:1) common to man (or, mankind).Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-8Verses 6-8 God has, in wisdom, kept away from us the knowledge of future events, that we may be always ready for changes. We must all die, no flight or hiding-place can save us, nor are there any weapons of effectual resistance. Ninety thousand die every day, upwards of sixty every minute, and one every moment. How solemn the thought! Oh that men were wise, that they understood these things, that they would consider their latter end! The believer alone is…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6there is a right time...to every purpose: Wise people will be ready when the right moment comes (see Ecclesiastes 3:1–8; Ephesians 5:16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. therefore the misery, &c.--because the foolish sinner does not think of the right "times" and the "judgment."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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