Ecclesiastes 6:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.”
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“Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“What <FI>is<Fi> that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it <FI>is<Fi> man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ecclesiastes 6:10 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:9But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
- Genesis 3:17And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Job 9:3If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
- Job 9:32For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
- Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- Job 33:13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
- Job 40:2“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”
- Psalms 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
- Psalms 82:6I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’
- Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
- Ecclesiastes 1:9What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 1:10Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.
- Ecclesiastes 3:15What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.
- Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
- Jeremiah 49:19Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
- Romans 9:19One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
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