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

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.

All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, 'I am wise,' and it is far from me.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, How -- bones in the womb of the full one, So thou knowest not the work of God who maketh the whole.

Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.

By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?

Much hast Thou done, Jehovah my God; Thy wonders and Thy thoughts toward us, There is none to arrange unto Thee, I declare and speak: They have been more than to be numbered.

And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,

How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions.

Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The God of the age -- Jehovah, Preparer of the ends of the earth, Is not wearied nor fatigued, There is no searching of His understanding.

O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!