Ecclesiastes 8:7
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
In other versions
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
ASV
No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?
BBE
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
DBY
For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
WEB
For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?
YLT
For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
ENG
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
WBT
Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
BSB
In context
5Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
6Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
8There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.