קהלת 8:6

Hebrew Modern Translation

כי לכל חפץ יש עת ומשפט כי רעת האדם רבה עליו׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
כי לכל חפץ יש עת ומשפט כי רעת האדם רבה עליו

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
כִּ֣י לְכָל־חֵ֔פֶץ יֵ֖שׁ עֵ֣ת וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט כִּֽי־רָעַ֥ת הָאָדָ֖ם רַבָּ֥ה עָלָֽיו ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
כִּי לְכָל־חֵפֶץ יֵשׁ עֵת וּמִשְׁפָּט כִּֽי־רָעַת הָאָדָם רַבָּה עָלָֽיו ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to every: Ecclesiastes 3:1, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Ecclesiastes 3:17, Ecclesiastes 7:13, Ecclesiastes 7:14

therefore: Ecclesiastes 11:9, Ecclesiastes 11:10, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Isaiah 3:11-14, Isaiah 22:12-14, Luke 13:25, Luke 17:26-30, Luke 19:42-44, Hebrews 3:7-11

Reciprocal: Job 10:13 - hid Job 24:1 - seeing Proverbs 13:23 - destroyed Proverbs 15:22 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment,.... There is a fit season, and a right and proper manner of doing everything that is to be done; see Ecclesiastes 3:1; which a wise man discerns; and which when a man hits upon, it prevents a great deal of mischief, which for want of it comes upon men, as the following clause shows; some refer this to the punishment of the wicked, and to a future judgment. So the Targum,

"to every business there is a time good and evil, and according to the judgment of truth the whole world is judged;''

and to the same purpose Jarchi,

"there is a time fixed for the visitation of the wicked, and there is judgment before the Lord; this is vengeance or punishment;''

therefore the misery of man [is] great upon him; he not observing the right time and manner of doing what he ought, brings much trouble upon himself; his days are few and full trouble, and every day has a sufficiency of evil in because of the evil of sin, the evil of misery presses upon him, and is a heavy burden on him Jarchi's note is,

"when the wickedness of a man is great, then cometh his visitation.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because, therefore - , Or, as in Ecclesiastes 8:7, “for.”

The possibility of God’s time and judgment being in opposition to a king’s purpose or commandment Ecclesiastes 8:5, suggests the thought that such discord is a misery (evil, Ecclesiastes 6:1) common to man (or, mankind).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 8:6. To every purpose there is time — חפץ chaphets, every volition, every thing that depends on the will of man. He has generally the opportunity to do whatever he purposes; and as his purposes are frequently evil, his acts are so too: and in consequence his misery is great.