Ecclesiastes 6:10

WEB

¹⁰Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

KJV

¹⁰That 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.

BSB

¹⁰Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.

FBV

¹⁰Everything that exists has already been described^[+] knows what people are like, and that you can't win an argument with a superior.

Extra References

Job 9:32

³²For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

⁹Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’? ¹⁰Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”

Job 40:2

²“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Ecclesiastes 3:15

¹⁵That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away.

Jeremiah 49:19

¹⁹“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it, and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”

Genesis 3:17-19

¹⁷To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. ¹⁸It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. ¹⁹You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Job 33:13

¹³Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

Romans 9:19-20

¹⁹You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?” ²⁰But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Ecclesiastes 1:9-11

⁹That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun. ¹⁰Is there a thing of which it may be said, “Behold, ^[+] this is new”? It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us. ¹¹There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

Psalms 39:6

⁶“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.