Tree of Life Version
Ecclesiastes 8:6
6For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person’s trouble is heavy upon him.
Ecclesiastes 8:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
- 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.
Context of Ecclesiastes 8:6
4Since the word of a king has authority, who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?’ 5Whoever obeys his command will not experience harm, and a wise person’s heart discerns the proper time and procedure. For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person’s trouble is heavy upon him. 7Since no one knows what will be, who can tell when it will happen? 8No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, nor authority over the day of death. As no one is discharged during a battle, so wickedness cannot rescue its master.
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כִּ֣י לְכָל־חֵ֔פֶץ יֵ֖שׁ עֵ֣ת וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט כִּֽי־רָעַ֥ת הָאָדָ֖ם רַבָּ֥ה עָלָֽיו׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Ecclesiastes 8:6
- Ecclesiastes 3:1For everything there is a season and a time for every activity under heaven:
- Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God, for who can straighten what He has bent?
- Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, young man, in your childhood, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.
- Ecclesiastes 12:1So remember your Creator in the days of your youth: before the days of misery come, and years draw near when you will say: “I have no pleasure in them”—
- Isaiah 3:11Oy , the wicked! It will be bad for him, for the dealing of his hands will be done to him.
- Isaiah 22:12Now in that day, Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot will call for weeping and wailing, for baldness and putting on sackcloth.
- Luke 13:25Once the Master of the household gets up and shuts the door, and you’re standing outside and begin knocking on the door, saying, ‘Master, open up for us,’ then He will say to you, ‘I don’t know where you come from.’
- Luke 17:26As it was in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man.
- Luke 19:42saying, “If only you had recognized this day the things that lead to shalom! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
- Hebrews 3:7Therefore, just as the Ruach ha-Kodesh says, “Today if you 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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