Ecclesiastes 8:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.

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  • Eccl 3:1 : 1 For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
  • Eccl 3:17 : 17 I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.
  • Eccl 7:13-14 : 13 Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent? 14 In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.
  • Eccl 11:9-12:1 : 9 Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge. 10 So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose. 1 Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;
  • Isa 3:11-14 : 11 Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him. 12 As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way. 13 The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge. 14 The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.
  • Isa 22:12-14 : 12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief: 13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes. 14 And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
  • Luke 13:25 : 25 When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.
  • Luke 17:26-30 : 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man. 27 They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction. 28 In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building; 29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all. 30 So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.
  • Luke 19:42-44 : 42 Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them. 43 For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side, 44 And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.
  • Heb 3:7-9 : 7 And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears, 8 Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land, 9 When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years. 10 So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways; 11 And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.
  • Eccl 3:11 : 11 He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 8:5
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    5Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

  • Eccl 3:1-2
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    1For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

    2A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;

  • Eccl 8:9
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    9All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.

  • Eccl 3:16-18
    3 verses
    78%

    16And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

    17I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.

    18I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

  • Eccl 6:10-12
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    76%

    10That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.

    11There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

    12Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 8:11
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    11Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.

  • Eccl 8:14-17
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    14There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.

    15So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

    16When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

    17Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

  • Eccl 3:8-12
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    8A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

    9What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

    10I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man.

    11He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

    12I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

  • Eccl 9:11-13
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    11And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.

    12Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

    13This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.

  • Eccl 11:8-9
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    8But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

    9Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;

  • Eccl 7:14-15
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    14In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

    15These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

  • Eccl 3:6
    74%

    6A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

  • Eccl 3:22
    74%

    22So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

  • Eccl 9:1
    74%

    1All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

  • Eccl 2:26
    73%

    26To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

  • Eccl 2:21-23
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    73%

    21Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

    22What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

    23All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

  • Ps 39:6
    72%

    6Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • Eccl 12:8
    72%

    8All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

  • Eccl 6:7-8
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    7All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

    8What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

  • Eccl 1:13
    72%

    13And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

  • Eccl 2:17
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    17So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

  • Job 7:1
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    1Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

  • Eccl 1:18
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    18Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.

  • Eccl 7:2
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    2It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

  • Eccl 12:14
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    14God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

  • Job 3:20
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    20Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;