7 Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
Ecclesiastes 8:7
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Ecclesiastes 10:13–15
13 The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness. 14 Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him? 15 The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
Ecclesiastes 6:11–12
11 For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone? 12 For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
2 Esdras 4:45–47
45 show me this also, whether there is more to come than is past, or whether the greater part has gone over us. (WEB) 46 For what is gone I know, but I don’t know what is to come.” (WEB) 47 He said to me, “Stand up on my right side, and I will explain the parable to you.” (WEB)
Sirach 16:19–21
19 The mountains and the foundations of the earth together are shaken with trembling when he looks at them. (WEB) 20 No heart will think about these things. Who could comprehend his ways? (WEB) 21 Like a tempest which no man can see, so, the majority of his works are hidden. (WEB)
Odes of Solomon 26:10–12
10 Or who can rest on the Most High, so that with His mouth he may speak? (ODE) 11 Who is able to interpret the wonders of the Lord? (ODE) 12 For he who could interpret would be dissolved and would become that which is interpreted. (ODE)
Ecclesiastes 7:23–25
23 All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me. 24 What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it? 25 I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity…
Epistle to Diognetus 8:1–2
1 For what man at all had any knowledge what God was, before He came? (DIO) 2 Or dost thou accept the empty and nonsensical statements of those pretentious philosophers: of whom some said that God was fire (they call that God, whereunto they themselves shall go), and ot… (DIO)
Job 9:11–13
11 Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him. 12 If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’ 13 God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
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