Cross references
Ecclesiastes 8:6
For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
Ecclesiastes 8:6 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 3:1 (12 votes) and Ecclesiastes 3:17 (10 votes). 7 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from Job 10 to Hebrews 3.
Which verses does Ecclesiastes 8:6 point to?
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- Ecclesiastes 3:112 votes
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
- Ecclesiastes 3:1710 votes
I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
- Ecclesiastes 3:114 votes
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
- Luke 19:42–444 votes
and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. …
- Ecclesiastes 7:13–143 votes
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent? In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
- Luke 17:26–303 votes
Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man: People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. …
- Ecclesiastes 11:9–12:12 votes
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment. So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting. …
- Isaiah 3:11–142 votes
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done. Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths. …
- Isaiah 22:12–142 votes
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth. But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” …
- Luke 13:252 votes
After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’
- Hebrews 3:7–112 votes
Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 8:6?
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