Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.[a] For there is a time and a way (A)for everything, although man's trouble[b] lies heavy on him. For he (B)does not know what is to be, for (C)who can tell him how it will be?

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:5 Or and judgment
  2. Ecclesiastes 8:6 Or evil

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