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Ecclesiaste 8:7

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7 L’uomo, infatti, non sa quel che avverrà; poiché chi gli dirà come andranno le cose?

Ecclesiaste 8:7 Meaning and Commentary

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he knoweth not that which shall be
Or that "it shall be" F2; that he ever shall have the opportunity again he has lost, nor what is to come hereafter; what shall be on the morrow, or what shall befall him in the remaining part of his days; what troubles and sorrows he shall meet with, or what will be the case and circumstances of his family after his death; for who can tell him when it shall be?
or "how it shall be" F3? how it will be with him or his; no one that pretends to judicial astrology, or to the art of divination, or any such devices, can tell him what is to come; future things are only certainly known by God; none but he can tell what will certainly come to pass; see ( Ecclesiastes 3:22 ) ( 6:12 ) ; Jarchi interprets it of a man's not considering for what God will bring him to judgment, and that no man can tell him the vengeance and punishment that will be inflicted.


FOOTNOTES:

F2 (hyhyv hm) "quod futurum est", Pagninus, Montanus.
F3 (hyhy rvak) "quo modo", Junius & Tremellius, Gejerus, Rambachius, so Broughton.
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Ecclesiaste 8:7 In-Context

5 Chi osserva il comandamento non conosce disgrazia, e il cuore dell’uomo savio sa che v’è un tempo e un giudizio;
6 perché per ogni cosa v’è un tempo e un giudizio; giacché la malvagità dell’uomo pesa grave addosso a lui.
7 L’uomo, infatti, non sa quel che avverrà; poiché chi gli dirà come andranno le cose?
8 Non v’è uomo che abbia potere sul vento per poterlo trattenere, o che abbia potere sul giorno della morte; non v’è congedo in tempo di guerra, e l’iniquità non può salvare chi la commette.
9 Io ho veduto tutto questo, ed ho posto mente a tutto quello che si fa sotto il sole, quando l’uomo signoreggia sugli uomini per loro sventura.
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