Ecclesiastes 3:11

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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  • Rom 11:33 : 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
  • Rom 1:19-20 : 19 because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, [even] his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:
  • Eccl 8:17 : 17 then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
  • Gen 1:31 : 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
  • Deut 32:4 : 4 The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
  • Job 11:7 : 7 Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
  • Job 5:9 : 9 Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
  • Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal [him] .
  • Matt 13:22 : 22 And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the word; and the care of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
  • Mark 7:37 : 37 And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well; he maketh even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • Ps 104:24 : 24 O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
  • Job 37:23 : 23 [ Touching] the Almighty, we cannot find him out: He is excellent in power; And in justice and plenteous righteousness he will not afflict.

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  • Eccl 3:8-10
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    8a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

    9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

    10I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

  • Eccl 3:12-15
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    12I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.

    13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

    14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God hath done it, that men should fear before him.

    15That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away.

  • Eccl 3:1-3
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    1For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

    2a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

    3a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes), [

    17then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 1:8-10
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    8All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter [it] : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

    9That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

    10Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

  • Eccl 3:17-19
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    17I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

    18I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are [but as] beasts.

    19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

  • Eccl 1:13-15
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    13And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

    15That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

  • Eccl 8:6-7
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    6for to every purpose there is a time and judgment; because the misery of man is great upon him:

    7for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

  • Eccl 7:13-14
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    13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

    14In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yea, God hath made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything [that shall be] after him.

  • Eccl 2:24
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    24There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

  • Eccl 2:10-11
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    10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.

    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Eccl 8:9
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    9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.

  • Eccl 2:22
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    22For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

  • Eccl 5:20
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    20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.

  • Eccl 1:3
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    3What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

    12For who knoweth what is good for man in [his] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • Prov 16:4
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    4Jehovah hath made everything for its own end; Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

  • Eccl 5:18
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    18Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, wherein he laboreth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for this is his portion.

  • Eccl 4:3-4
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    3yea, better than them both [did I esteem] him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

    4Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 3:6
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    6a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

  • Eccl 9:10
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    10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

  • Eccl 7:29
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    29Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

  • Eccl 2:26
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    26For to the man that pleaseth him [God] giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 11:9
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    9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

  • Ps 33:15
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    15He that fashioneth the hearts of them all, That considereth all their works.

  • Eccl 4:16
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    16There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 8:11
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    11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

  • Eccl 2:20
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    20Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.