Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 8:7
A church father on this verse
“"For everything has its time and justice, for man's evil overwhelms him. Indeed he does not know what will happen, for when it happens , who will tell him? "Many good and bad things can befall a man, but even a righteous man is not able to know what will befall him, or know the causes and reasons for each thing, (for…”
Source: Septuagint
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7For there is no one that knows what is going to be: For who shall tell him how it shall be?
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5He that keeps the commandment shall not know an evil thing: And the heart of the wise knows the time of judgment.
6For to everything there is time and judgment; For the knowledge of a man is great to him.
— Ecclesiastes 8:7 —
8There is no man that has power over the spirit To retain the spirit; And there is no power in the day of death: And there is no discharge in the day of battle; Neither shall ungodliness save her votary.
9So I saw all this, And I applied my heart to every work That has been done under the sun; All the things wherein man has power Over man to afflict him.