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Whoever obeys a command will experience no harm, and a wise heart will know the right time and the right way to act, because for each situation there is a right time and a right way to act, although evil may weigh a man down. But no one knows what will be. Indeed, who can tell him what will be?[a]

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  1. Ecclesiastes 8:7 Or who can tell him when it will happen

Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm,
    and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.
For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter,(A)
    though a person may be weighed down by misery.

Since no one knows the future,
    who can tell someone else what is to come?

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