Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
All this hath he ordained marvelous goodly, to every thing his due time. He hath planted ignorance also in the hearts of men, that they should not find out the ground of his works, which he doth from the beginning to the end.
New American Standard Bible
He has
King James Version
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Holman Bible
He has made everything appropriate
International Standard Version
He made everything appropriate in its time. He also placed eternity within them yet, no person can fully comprehend what God is doing from beginning to end.
A Conservative Version
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
American Standard Version
He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.
Amplified
He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.
Bible in Basic English
He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.
Darby Translation
He hath made everything beautiful in its time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that man findeth not out from the beginning to the end the work that God doeth.
Julia Smith Translation
He made everything beautiful in his time: also he gave hidden time in their heart, so that man shall not find the work which God did from the beginning and even to the end.
King James 2000
He has made every thing beautiful in its time: also he has put eternity in men's hearts, so that no man can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He has made everything suitable in its time. He also has put {the past} in their hearts, yet no one can grasp what God does from the beginning to the end.
Modern King James verseion
He has made everything beautiful in His time; also He has set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.
NET Bible
God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.
New Heart English Bible
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
The Emphasized Bible
Everything, hath he made beautiful in its own time, - also, intelligence, hath he put in their heart, without which men could not find out the work which God hath wrought, from the beginning even unto the end.
Webster
He hath made every thing beautiful in its time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
World English Bible
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Youngs Literal Translation
The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.
Themes
God » Works of » General references to
Power » Of God » Described as » Incomprehensible
Topics
Interlinear
Yapheh
Nathan
`owlam
Leb
Matsa'
'elohiym
Devotionals
Devotionals about Ecclesiastes 3:11
Devotionals containing Ecclesiastes 3:11
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 3:11
Images Ecclesiastes 3:11
Prayers for Ecclesiastes 3:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
No One Understands God's Mysterious Plan
10 For as touching the travail and carefulness which God hath given unto men, I see that he hath given it them, to be exercised in it. 11 All this hath he ordained marvelous goodly, to every thing his due time. He hath planted ignorance also in the hearts of men, that they should not find out the ground of his works, which he doth from the beginning to the end. 12 So I perceived, that in these things there is nothing better for a man, then to be merry and to do well so long as he liveth.
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 8:17
I understood of all the works of God, that it is not possible for a man, to attain unto works that are done under the Sun: and though he bestow his labour to seek them out, yet can he not reach unto them: yea, though a wise man would undertake to know them, yet might he not find them.
Romans 11:33
O the deepness of the abundant wisdom and knowledge of God: how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out.
Genesis 1:31
And God beheld all that he had made, and lo they were exceeding good: and so of the evening and morning was made the sixth day.
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is a Rock, and perfect are his deeds, for all his ways are with discretion. God is faithful and without wickedness, both righteous and just is he.
Job 11:7
"Wilt thou find out God with thy seeking? Wilt thou attain to the perfectness of the Almighty?
Romans 1:28
And as it seemed not good unto them to be a known of God, even so God delivered them up unto a lewd mind, that they should do those things which were not comely,
Job 5:9
which doeth things, that are unsearchable, and marvelous without number.
Psalm 104:24
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! Right wisely hast thou made them all; yea, the earth is full of thy riches.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Lo, this only have I found, that God made man just and right, but they seek divers subtleties.
Matthew 11:27
All things are given unto me of my father: And no man knoweth the son, but the father; neither knoweth any man the father, save the son, and he to whom the son will open him.
Matthew 13:22
He that was sown among thorns, is he that heareth the word of God, but the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and so is he made unfruitful.
Mark 7:37
And were beyond measure astonished, saying, "He hath done all things well, and hath made both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak."
Romans 1:19-20
Seeing what may be known of God, that same is manifest among them: For God did show it unto them.
Job 37:23
It is not we that can find out the Almighty: for in power, equity, and righteousness, he is higher than can be expressed.