Ecclesiastes 8:7
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
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Context
5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man great upon him.
7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
8 no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither power in the day of death: and no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.