Ecclesiastes 8:6 meaning and explanation

For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.

Ecclesiastes 8:6, Berean Standard Bible

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The Teacher, the wisdom speaker of Ecclesiastes, has just urged obedience to the king and now widens the thought: every human purpose has its fitting time and way of doing it. The Hebrew word mishpat here carries the sense of a proper procedure or judgment, not merely a clock time.

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