For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
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Gill's Exposition
For he knoweth not that which shall be,.... Or that "it shall be" (b); 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…
Barnes' Notes
When - Or, as in the margin. For the meaning of this verse, compare marginal references.
Solomon had said (Ecc 8:5) that a wise man's heart discerns time and judgment, that is, a man's wisdom will go a great way, by the blessing of God, in moral prognostications; but here he shows that…
Cambridge Bible
For he knoweth not that which shall be The subject of the sentence is apparently the wicked and tyrannous ruler. He goes on with infatuated blindness to the doom that lies before him. The same thought…
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