Ecclesiastes 8:6 Cross References - BBE

⁶ For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.

¹ For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

¹¹ He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

¹⁷ I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.

¹³ Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent? ¹⁴ In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

⁹ Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

¹¹ Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him. ¹² As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way. ¹³ The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge. ¹⁴ The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

¹² And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief: ¹³ But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes. ¹⁴ And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

²⁵ When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.

²⁶ And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man. ²⁷ They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction. ²⁸ In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building; ²⁹ But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all. ³⁰ So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.

⁴² Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them. ⁴³ For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side, ⁴⁴ And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

⁷ And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears, ⁸ Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land, ⁹ When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years. ¹⁰ So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways; ¹¹ And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.