Ecclesiastes 8:17

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Summary

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

That a man

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That a man

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.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

As thou know not what is the way of the wind, [nor] how the bones [grow] in the womb of her who is with child, even so thou know not the work of God who does all.

who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,

Can thou find out God by searching? Can thou find out the Almighty to perfection?

Many, O LORD my God, are the wonderful works which thou have done, and thy thoughts which are toward us. They cannot be set in order to thee. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

When I thought how I might understand this, it was too painful for me,

O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom have thou made them all. The earth is full of thy riches.

and I have not learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy.

Have thou not known? Have thou not heard? The everlasting God, LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, nor is weary. There is no searching of his understanding.

O the depth of wealth, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond finding out!