Ecclesiastes 8:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

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  • Eccl 3:11 : 11 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.
  • Ps 73:16 : 16 And I think to know this, Perverseness it `is' in mine eyes,
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
  • Job 5:9 : 9 Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.
  • Eccl 7:23-24 : 23 All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, `I am wise,' and it `is' far from me. 24 Far off `is' that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?
  • Eccl 11:5 : 5 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.
  • Isa 40:28 : 28 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.
  • Job 11:7-9 : 7 By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One? 8 Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou? 9 Longer than earth `is' its measure, And broader than the sea.
  • Ps 40:5 : 5 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.
  • Ps 104:24 : 24 How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions.
  • Prov 30:3-4 : 3 Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know. 4 Who went up to heaven, and cometh down? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What `is' His name? and what His son's name? Surely thou knowest!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 8:14-16
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    14 There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also `is' vanity.

    15 And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

    16 When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

  • Eccl 1:13-15
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    82%

    13 And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It `is' a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

    14 I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!

    15 A crooked thing `one' is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.

  • Eccl 2:10-12
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    10 And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

    11 and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

    12 And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what `is' the man who cometh after the king? that which `is' already -- they have done it!

  • Eccl 2:15-22
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    15 and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is' vanity:

    16 That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

    17 And I have hated life, for sad to me `is' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

    18 And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

    19 And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is' vanity.

    20 And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

    21 For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.

    22 For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

  • 1 But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11 For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

    12 For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

  • 17 And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;

  • 22 And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

  • Eccl 9:10-11
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    10 All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

    11 I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift `is' the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

  • Eccl 3:10-12
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    10 I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

    11 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.

    12 I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

  • Eccl 1:8-9
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    8 All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.

    9 What `is' that which hath been? it `is' that which is, and what `is' that which hath been done? it `is' that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.

  • Eccl 7:24-25
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    24 Far off `is' that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?

    25 I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

  • 3 What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

  • 7 For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

  • 4 And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • 13 This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.

  • Job 28:12-13
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    12 And the wisdom -- whence is it found? And where `is' this, the place of understanding?

    13 Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.

  • 9 All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

  • Eccl 4:7-8
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    7 And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

    8 There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and `he saith not', `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

  • Eccl 2:24-26
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    24 There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it `is' from the hand of God.

    25 For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

    26 For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • 16 there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 6:7-8
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    7 All the labour of man `is' for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.

    8 For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

  • 8 Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.

  • 13 See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

  • 27 See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason

  • 14 I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.