כִּ֣י לְכָל־חֵ֔פֶץ יֵ֖שׁ עֵ֣ת וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט כִּֽי־רָעַ֥ת הָאָדָ֖ם רַבָּ֥ה עָלָֽיו׃
Car pour toute chose il est un temps opportun et une règle sûre; mais il est un mal qui pèse lourdement sur l’homme:
Rashi on Ecclesiastes
For every matter. When a person satisfies his desire and transgresses the law, a time to exact retribution [is cast], and justice and punishment are ready.
Kohelet Rabbah
“For every desire there is a time of judgment, as the evil of man overcomes him” (Ecclesiastes 8:6).
“For every desire there is a time,” and for every time there is a desire. How so? What a person desires to do in this world, he does, but there, [in the World to Come,] there is judgment and accounting.
“For every desire there is a time,” and for every time there is a desire. How so? What a person desires to do in this world, he does, but there, [in the World to Come,] there is judgment and accounting.
Rashi on Ecclesiastes
When the evil of man overwhelms him. When man’s evil becomes exceedingly overwhelming and his measure overflows, then his punishment arrives; ‘וְכִי’ is used as an expression of “when,” as in, “When כִּי they have a concern, it comes to me.”9Shemos 18:16.