English Standard Version
For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?

American Standard Version
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

Berean Study Bible
Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.

English Revised Version
for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

King James Bible
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

World English Bible
For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

Young's Literal Translation
For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

Ecclesiastes 8:7 Additional Translations ...