Ecclesiastes 8:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 3:1 : 1 To everything -- a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:
  • Eccl 3:17 : 17 I said in my heart, `The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time `is' to every matter and for every work there.'
  • Eccl 7:13-14 : 13 See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked? 14 In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.
  • Eccl 11:9-12:1 : 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment. 10 And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age `are' vanity! 1 Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, `I have no pleasure in them.'
  • Isa 3:11-14 : 11 Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him. 12 My people -- its exactors `are' sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up. 13 Jehovah hath stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the peoples. 14 Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: `And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor `is' in your houses.
  • Isa 22:12-14 : 12 And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth, 13 And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. 14 And revealed it hath been in mine ears, `By' Jehovah of Hosts: Not pardoned is this iniquity to you, Till ye die, said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.
  • Luke 13:25 : 25 from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,
  • Luke 17:26-30 : 26 `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man; 27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all; 28 in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; 29 and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all. 30 `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;
  • Luke 19:42-44 : 42 saying -- `If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes. 43 `Because days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast around thee a rampart, and compass thee round, and press thee on every side, 44 and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.'
  • Heb 3:7-9 : 7 Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear -- 8 ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness, 9 in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years; 10 wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways; 11 so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- !')
  • Eccl 3:11 : 11 The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 8:5
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    5Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

  • Eccl 3:1-2
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    1To everything -- a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

    2A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.

  • Eccl 8:9
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    9All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

  • Eccl 3:16-18
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    78%

    16And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there `is' the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there `is' the wicked.

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

    18I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves `are' beasts.

  • Eccl 6:10-12
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    10What `is' that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it `is' man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.

    11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

    12For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 8:11
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    11Because sentence hath not been done `on' an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.

  • Eccl 8:14-17
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    14There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also `is' vanity.

    15And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

    16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

    17then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

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

    9What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

    10I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

    11The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

    12I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

  • Eccl 9:11-13
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    75%

    11I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift `is' the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

    12For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these `are' the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

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

  • Eccl 11:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming `is' vanity.

    9Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.

  • Eccl 6:1
    74%

    1There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it `is' great on man:

  • Eccl 7:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.

    15The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.

  • Eccl 3:6
    74%

    6A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away.

  • Eccl 9:3
    74%

    3This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.

  • Eccl 3:22
    74%

    22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

  • Eccl 9:1
    74%

    1But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.

  • Eccl 2:26
    73%

    26For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 2:21-23
    3 verses
    73%

    21For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.

    22For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

    23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.

  • Ps 39:6
    72%

    6Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 6:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7All the labour of man `is' for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.

    8For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

  • Eccl 1:13
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    13And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It `is' a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

  • Eccl 2:17
    71%

    17And I have hated life, for sad to me `is' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Job 7:1
    71%

    1Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?

  • Eccl 1:18
    71%

    18for, in abundance of wisdom `is' abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'

  • Eccl 7:2
    71%

    2Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth `it' unto his heart.

  • Eccl 12:14
    71%

    14For every work doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.'

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 5:16
    71%

    16And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?

  • Job 3:20
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    20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?