Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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
I have seen the task that God has given with which the sons of men are occupied.
11 He has
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 8:17
I saw all the work of God. A man cannot discover the work that is done under the sun. Though a man labor to seek it out, yet he will not find it. Though a wise man thinks to know it, yet he will not be able to find it.
Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments. His ways are beyond human understanding!
Genesis 1:31
God saw all that he had made. It was very good. There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock! His work is perfect. For all His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness and without evil. He is just and upright.
Job 11:7
Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
Romans 1:28
They did not like to retain God in their knowledge, so God gave them over to a reprobate (depraved) mind, to do things that are not fitting.
Job 5:9
He does great things that we cannot understand and miracles that we cannot count.
Psalm 104:24
O Jehovah, how many are your works! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your possessions.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
You see! I have found only this, that God made man upright. But they have sought out many devices (schemes) (reasonings).
Matthew 11:27
All things have been delivered to me from my Father. Only the Father knows the Son, and only the Son knows the Father. The Son tells others about the Father so that they can know him too.
Matthew 13:22
He that was sown among thorns hears the word. The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Mark 7:37
They were beside themselves with amazement saying: He makes even the deaf hear and the dumb speak.
Romans 1:19-20
That which is known about God is clear to them, for God revealed it to them.
Job 37:23
We cannot find the Almighty. He is exalted in power but will not do violence to justice and abundant righteousness.