Ecclesiastes 8:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

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  • Eccl 3:1 : 1 To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
  • Eccl 3:17 : 17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time for every purpose and for every work.
  • Eccl 7:13-14 : 13 Consider the work of God, for who can make straight what He has made crooked? 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one against the other, so that man should find nothing after him.
  • Eccl 11:9-12:1 : 9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, 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 into judgment. 10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity. 1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, nor the years draw near when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;
  • Isa 3:11-14 : 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given to him. 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths. 13 The LORD stands up to plead and stands to judge the people. 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
  • Isa 22:12-14 : 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth. 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. 14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
  • Luke 13:25 : 25 When once the master of the house has arisen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us; and he will answer and say to you, I do not know you, where you are from:
  • Luke 17:26-30 : 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 But on the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
  • Luke 19:42-44 : 42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side, 44 And will level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.
  • Heb 3:7-9 : 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of temptation in the wilderness, 9 When your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years. 10 Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They always go astray in their heart; and they have not known My ways. 11 So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.
  • Eccl 3:11 : 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time: also he has set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.

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  • Eccl 8:5
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    5 Whoever keeps the commandment shall feel no evil thing; and a wise man's heart discerns both time and judgment.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7 For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?

  • Eccl 3:1-2
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    1 To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

    2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

  • Eccl 8:9
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    9 All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man rules over another to his own harm.

  • Eccl 3:16-18
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    16 Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

    17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time for every purpose and for every work.

    18 I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are like beasts.

  • Eccl 6:10-12
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    10 That which has been is already named, and it is known that it is man: nor can he contend with one mightier than he.

    11 Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

    12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 8:11
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    11 Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed quickly, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

  • Eccl 8:14-17
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    14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: there are just men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

    15 So I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

    16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the work that is done upon the earth (for there are those who neither day nor night see sleep with their eyes),

    17 Then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Even though a man labors to seek it out, he shall not find it; moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, he shall not be able to find it.

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

    9 What profit does he have who works in that which he labors?

    10 I have seen the task which God has given to the sons of men to be occupied with.

    11 He has made everything beautiful in its time: also he has set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.

    12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives.

  • Eccl 9:11-13
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    11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

    12 For man also does not know his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

    13 This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me:

  • Eccl 11:8-9
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    8 But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.

    9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, 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 into judgment.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1 There is an evil I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

  • Eccl 7:14-15
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    14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one against the other, so that man should find nothing after him.

    15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness.

  • Eccl 3:6
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    6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that, they go to the dead.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22 Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 9:1
    74%

    1 For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

  • Eccl 2:26
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    26 For God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to the man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, only to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 2:21-23
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    73%

    21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill. Yet he must leave his inheritance to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

    22 For what has man from all his labor, and of the striving of his heart with which he has labored under the sun?

    23 For all his days are sorrowful, and his work is burdensome; even at night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8 Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.

  • Eccl 6:7-8
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    7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his appetite is not satisfied.

    8 For what has the wise more than the fool? what does the poor have, who knows to walk before the living?

  • Eccl 1:13
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    13 And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this difficult task God has given to the children of man to be engaged with.

  • Eccl 2:17
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    17 Therefore I hated life, because the work that was done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Job 7:1
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    1 Is there not an appointed time for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired worker?

  • Eccl 1:18
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    18 For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

  • Eccl 7:2
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    2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men, and the living will take it to heart.

  • Eccl 12:14
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    14 For God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I have labored and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

  • Job 3:20
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    20 Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;