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

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.

All these things have I proved because of wisdom: For I thought to be wise, but she went farther from me than she was before;

Now, like as thou knowest not the way of the wind, nor how the bones are filled in a mother's womb: Even so thou knowest not the works of God, which is the workmaster of all.

which doeth things, that are unsearchable, and marvelous without number.

"Wilt thou find out God with thy seeking? Wilt thou attain to the perfectness of the Almighty?

O LORD my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts, which are to us-ward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. If I should declare them, and speak of them, they should be more than I am able to express.

Then thought I to understand this; but it was too hard for me,

O LORD, how manifold are thy works! Right wisely hast thou made them all; yea, the earth is full of thy riches.

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Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD which made all the corners of the earth, is neither weary nor faint: and that his wisdom cannot be comprehended?

O the deepness of the abundant wisdom and knowledge of God: how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out.