Ecclesiastes 8:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

For to euery purpose there is a time and iudgement, because the miserie of man is great vpon him.

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  • Eccl 3:1 : 1 To all things there is an appointed time, and a time to euery purpose vnder the heauen.
  • Eccl 3:17 : 17 I thought in mine heart, God wil iudge the iust and the wicked: for time is there for euery purpose and for euery worke.
  • Eccl 7:13-14 : 13 (7:15) Beholde the worke of God: for who can make straight that which he hath made crooked? 14 (7:16) In the day of wealth be of good comfort, and in the day of affliction consider: God also hath made this contrary to that, to the intent that man shoulde finde nothing after him.
  • Eccl 11:9-12:1 : 9 Reioyce, O yong man, in thy youth, and let thine heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth: and walke in the waies of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but knowe that for all these things, God wil bring thee to iudgement. 10 Therefore take away griefe out of thine heart, and cause euil to depart from thy flesh: for childehoode and youth are vanitie. 1 Remember nowe thy Creator in the daies of thy youth, whiles the euill daies come not, nor the yeeres approche, wherein thou shalt say, I haue no pleasure in them:
  • Isa 3:11-14 : 11 Woe be to the wicked, it shalbe euill with him: for the reward of his handes shalbe giuen him. 12 Children are extorcioners of my people, and women haue rule ouer them: O my people, they that leade thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy paths. 13 The Lorde standeth vp to pleade, yea, hee standeth to iudge the people. 14 The Lord shall enter into iudgement with the Ancients of his people & the princes thereof: for ye haue eaten vp the vineyarde: the spoyle of the poore is in your houses.
  • Isa 22:12-14 : 12 And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call vnto weeping and mourning, and to baldnes and girding with sackecloth. 13 And beholde, ioy and gladnes, slaying oxen and killing sheepe, eating flesh, & drinking wine, eating and drinking: for to morowe we shall die. 14 And it was declared in ye eares of the Lorde of hostes. Surely this iniquitie shall not be purged from you, til ye die, saith the Lord God of hostes.
  • Luke 13:25 : 25 When the good man of the house is risen vp, and hath shut to the doore, and ye begin to stand without, and to knocke at the doore, saying, Lord, Lord, open to vs, and he shall answere and say vnto you, I know you not whence ye are,
  • Luke 17:26-30 : 26 And as it was in the dayes of Noe, so shall it be in the dayes of the Sonne of man. 27 They ate, they dranke, they married wiues, and gaue in marriage vnto the day that Noe went into the Arke: and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise also, as it was in the dayes of Lot: they ate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they built. 29 But in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heauen, and destroyed them all. 30 After these ensamples shall it be in the day when the Sonne of man is reueiled.
  • Luke 19:42-44 : 42 Saying, O if thou haddest euen knowen at the least in this thy day those things, which belong vnto thy peace! but nowe are they hid from thine eyes. 43 For the dayes shall come vpon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compasse thee round, and keepe thee in on euery side, 44 And shall make thee euen with ye ground, and thy children which are in thee, and they shall not leaue in thee a stone vpon a stone, because thou knewest not that season of thy visitation.
  • Heb 3:7-9 : 7 Wherefore, as the holy Ghost sayth, To day if ye shall heare his voyce, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation, according to the day of the tentation in the wildernes, 9 Where your fathers tempted me, prooued me, and sawe my workes fourtie yeeres long. 10 Wherefore I was grieued with that generation, and sayde, They erre euer in their heart, neither haue they knowen my wayes. 11 Therefore I sware in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.
  • Eccl 3:11 : 11 He hath made euery thing beautifull in his time: also he hath set the worlde in their heart, yet can not man finde out the worke that God hath wrought fro the beginning euen to the end.

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  • Eccl 8:5
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    5He that keepeth the commandement, shall knowe none euill thing, and the heart of the wise shall knowe the time and iudgement.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7For he knoweth not that which shalbe: for who can tell him when it shalbe?

  • Eccl 3:1-2
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    1To all things there is an appointed time, and a time to euery purpose vnder the heauen.

    2A time to bee borne, and a time to die: a time to plant, and a time to plucke vp that which is planted.

  • Eccl 8:9
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    9All this haue I seene, and haue giuen mine heart to euery worke, which is wrought vnder the sunne, and I sawe a time that man ruleth ouer man to his owne hurt.

  • Eccl 3:16-18
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    16And moreouer I haue seene vnder the sunne the place of iudgement, where was wickednesse, and the place of iustice where was iniquitie.

    17I thought in mine heart, God wil iudge the iust and the wicked: for time is there for euery purpose and for euery worke.

    18I considered in mine heart the state of the children of men that God had purged them: yet to see to, they are in themselues as beastes.

  • Eccl 6:10-12
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    10What is that that hath bene? the name thereof is nowe named: and it is knowen that it is man: and he cannot striue with him that is stronger then he.

    11(7:1) Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?

    12(7:2) For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?

  • Eccl 8:11
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    11Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to doe euill.

  • Eccl 8:14-17
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    14There is a vanitie, which is done vpon the earth, that there be righteous men to whom it commeth according to the worke of the wicked: and there be wicked men to whom it commeth according to the worke of the iust: I thought also that this is vanitie.

    15And I praysed ioy: for there is no goodnesse to man vnder the sunne, saue to eate and to drinke and to reioyce: for this is adioyned to his labour, the dayes of his life that God hath giuen him vnder the sunne.

    16When I applied mine heart to knowe wisedome, and to behold the busines that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleepe,

    17Then I behelde the whole worke of God, that man cannot finde out ye worke that is wrought vnder the sunne: for the which man laboureth to seeke it, and cannot finde it: yea, and though the wise man thinke to knowe it, he cannot finde it.

  • Eccl 3:8-12
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    8A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.

    9What profite hath hee that worketh of the thing wherein he trauaileth?

    10I haue seene the trauaile that God hath giuen to ye sonnes of men to humble them thereby.

    11He hath made euery thing beautifull in his time: also he hath set the worlde in their heart, yet can not man finde out the worke that God hath wrought fro the beginning euen to the end.

    12I know that there is nothing good in them, but to reioyce, and to doe good in his life.

  • Eccl 9:11-13
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    11I returned, and I sawe vnder the sunne that the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor also riches to men of vnderstanding, neither yet fauour to men of knowledge: but time and chance commeth to them all.

    12For neither doth man knowe his time, but as the fishes which are taken in an euill net, and as the birdes that are caught in the snare: so are the children of men snared in the euill time when it falleth vpon them suddenly.

    13I haue also seene this wisedome vnder the sunne, and it is great vnto me.

  • Eccl 11:8-9
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    8Though a man liue many yeeres, and in them all he reioyce, yet hee shall remember the daies of darkenesse, because they are manie, all that commeth is vanitie.

    9Reioyce, O yong man, in thy youth, and let thine heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth: and walke in the waies of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but knowe that for all these things, God wil bring thee to iudgement.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an euill, which I sawe vnder the sunne, and it is much among men:

  • Eccl 7:14-15
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    14(7:16) In the day of wealth be of good comfort, and in the day of affliction consider: God also hath made this contrary to that, to the intent that man shoulde finde nothing after him.

    15(7:17) I haue seene all things in the dayes of my vanitie: there is a iust man that perisheth in his iustice, and there is a wicked man that continueth long in his malice.

  • Eccl 3:6
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    6A time to seeke, and a time to lose: a time to keepe, and a time to cast away.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3This is euill among all that is done vnder the sunne, that there is one condition to all, and also the heart of the sonnes of men is full of euill, and madnes is in their heartes whiles they liue, and after that, they goe to the dead.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22Therefore I see that there is nothing better then that a man shoulde reioyce in his affaires, because that is his portion. For who shal bring him to see what shalbe after him?

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1I haue surely giuen mine heart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth eyther loue or hatred of all that is before them.

  • Eccl 2:26
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    26Surely to a man that is good in his sight, God giueth wisdome, and knowledge, and ioy: but to the sinner he giueth paine, to gather, and to heape to giue to him that is good before God: this is also vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

  • Eccl 2:21-23
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    21For there is a man whose trauaile is in wisdome, and in knowledge and in equitie: yet to a man that hath not trauailed herein, shal he giue his portion: this also is vanitie and a great griefe.

    22For what hath man of all his trauaile and griefe of his heart, wherein he hath trauailed vnder the sunne?

    23For all his dayes are sorowes, and his trauaile griefe: his heart also taketh not rest in the night: which also is vanitie.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanitie of vanities, saieth the Preacher, all is vanitie.

  • Eccl 6:7-8
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    7All the labour of man is for his mouth: yet the soule is not filled.

    8For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?

  • Eccl 1:13
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    13And I haue giuen mine heart to search and finde out wisdome by all things that are done vnder the heauen: (this sore trauaile hath GOD giuen to the sonnes of men, to humble them thereby)

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    17Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

  • Job 7:1
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    1Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling?

  • Eccl 1:18
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    18For in the multitude of wisedome is much griefe: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorowe.

  • Eccl 7:2
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    2(7:4) It is better to goe to the house of mourning, then to goe to the house of feasting, because this is the ende of all men: and the liuing shall lay it to his heart.

  • Eccl 12:14
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    14For God will bring euery worke vnto iudgement, with euery secret thing, whether it be good or euill.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19And who knoweth whether he shalbe wise or foolish? yet shall hee haue rule ouer all my labour, wherein I haue trauailed, and wherein I haue shewed my selfe wise vnder the sunne. This is also vanitie.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16(5:15) And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde?

  • Job 3:20
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    20Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?