Ecclesiastes 8:6

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For every purpose there is a proper time and procedure, though the misery of mankind weighs heavily upon them.

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  • Eccl 3:1 : 1 There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens.
  • Eccl 3:17 : 17 I said in my heart, 'God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.'
  • Eccl 7:13-14 : 13 Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what he has made crooked? 14 When times are good, be joyful; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.
  • Eccl 11:9-12:1 : 9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart be glad in the days of your prime. Follow the ways of your heart and the sights of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. 10 Remove vexation from your heart and put away distress from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are fleeting. 1 Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years arrive when you say, 'I find no pleasure in them.'
  • Isa 3:11-14 : 11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; they will be repaid for their deeds. 12 My people! Children oppress you, and women rule over you. Your guides mislead you and destroy the way of your paths. 13 The LORD takes His stand to argue His case; He rises to judge the peoples. 14 The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of His people: 'It is you who have ruined the vineyard; the plunder taken from the poor is in your houses.'
  • Isa 22:12-14 : 12 In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth. 13 But behold, there is joy and gladness—killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine—saying, 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!' 14 The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: 'Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die,' says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts.
  • Luke 13:25 : 25 Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, 'Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will answer, 'I don’t know you or where you come from.'
  • Luke 17:26-30 : 26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
  • Luke 19:42-44 : 42 He said, 'If you had known on this day, even you, the things that would bring you peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.' 43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side. 44 They will crush you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.
  • Heb 3:7-9 : 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw my works. 10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always wandering, and they have not known my ways.' 11 So I swore in my anger, 'They shall not enter my rest.'
  • Eccl 3:11 : 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity in the human heart, yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 8:5
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    5 Whoever obeys a command will avoid harm, and the heart of the wise person knows the right time and the right way.

  • Eccl 8:7
    79%

    7 Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell anyone what is to come?

  • Eccl 3:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1 There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens.

    2 A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.

  • Eccl 8:9
    78%

    9 I observed all this as I considered all the work done under the sun: a time when one man has power over another to hurt them.

  • Eccl 3:16-18
    3 verses
    78%

    16 And I saw under the sun, in the place of judgment, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well.

    17 I said in my heart, 'God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.'

    18 I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man, that God is testing them to show them that they are like animals.

  • Eccl 6:10-12
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    76%

    10 Whatever exists has already been given its name, and it is known what mankind is; no one can contend with someone who is stronger.

    11 The more words, the more meaningless—and what advantage does that bring to anyone?

    12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few days of their fleeting life? They pass like a shadow. Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

  • Eccl 8:11
    75%

    11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do evil.

  • Eccl 8:14-17
    4 verses
    75%

    14 There is a futility that takes place on the earth: righteous people receive what the wicked deserve, and wicked people receive what the righteous deserve. I said, 'This too is vanity.'

    15 So I praised enjoyment, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat, drink, and be glad. This will accompany them in their toil through the days of life that God has given them under the sun.

    16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to observe the work that is done on earth, even though people do not see sleep with their eyes day or night,

    17 then I saw all the work of God, that no one can understand the work that is done under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can comprehend it. Even if the wise claim to know, they cannot truly understand it.

  • Eccl 3:8-12
    5 verses
    75%

    8 A time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

    9 What does the worker gain from all their toil?

    10 I have seen the burden that God has laid on the human race.

    11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity in the human heart, yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

    12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to rejoice and to do good while they live.

  • Eccl 9:11-13
    3 verses
    75%

    11 Again I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor does bread come to the wise, nor riches to the discerning, nor favor to the knowledgeable; but time and chance happen to them all.

    12 For no one knows their time. Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so are people ensnared by an evil time when it suddenly falls upon them.

    13 I also saw this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

  • Eccl 11:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 For if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in all of them, but let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is meaningless.

    9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart be glad in the days of your prime. Follow the ways of your heart and the sights of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

  • Eccl 6:1
    74%

    1 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is great upon humanity.

  • Eccl 7:14-15
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    74%

    14 When times are good, be joyful; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.

    15 In my fleeting life, I have seen it all: The righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

  • Eccl 3:6
    74%

    6 A time to search and a time to give up; a time to keep and a time to throw away.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3 This is the distressing thing about everything that happens under the sun: the same fate befalls all. Moreover, the hearts of humans are full of evil, and madness resides in their hearts during their lives; and after that, they join the dead.

  • Eccl 3:22
    74%

    22 So I saw that there is nothing better than for a person to rejoice in their work, for that is their lot. Who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

  • Eccl 9:1
    74%

    1 So I reflected on all this and set my heart to examine it: that the righteous, the wise, and their deeds are in the hand of God. People do not know whether love or hatred awaits them; everything lies before them.

  • Eccl 2:26
    73%

    26 To the person who pleases Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, He gives the task of gathering and storing wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

  • Eccl 2:21-23
    3 verses
    73%

    21 For there is a person who labors with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, but then must leave everything to someone who has not worked for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.

    22 What does a person gain from all their labor and from the striving of their heart under the sun?

    23 All their days are full of sorrow, and their work is filled with grief; even at night their mind does not rest. This too is meaningless.

  • Ps 39:6
    72%

    6 Behold, You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before You. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.

  • Eccl 12:8
    72%

    8 'Utter futility,' says the Teacher. 'Everything is futile!'

  • Eccl 6:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 All human toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied.

    8 What advantage has the wise person over the fool? What does the poor person gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before the living?

  • Eccl 1:13
    72%

    13 I set my heart to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a burdensome task God has given to the human race to occupy themselves with!

  • Eccl 2:17
    71%

    17 So I hated life, because the work done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

  • Job 7:1
    71%

    1 Isn't human life on earth like hard labor and their days like those of a hired worker?

  • Eccl 1:18
    71%

    18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.

  • Eccl 7:2
    71%

    2 It is better to go to a house of mourning than to a house of feasting, because death is the destination of everyone, and the living should take it to heart.

  • Eccl 12:14
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    14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will rule over all the fruit of my labor that I have worked for under the sun. This too is meaningless.

  • Eccl 5:16
    71%

    16 Throughout his days, he eats in darkness, with great frustration, sickness, and anger.

  • Job 3:20
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    20 Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?