Ecclesiastes 3:11 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹¹ 8 I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ 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.

Common English Bible

¹¹ God has made everything fitting in its time, but has also placed eternity in their hearts, without enabling them to discover what God has done from beginning to end.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ He has made all things good in their time, and he has handed over the world to their disputes, so that man may not discover the work which God made from the beginning, even until the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 Cross References

Genesis 1:31

1 And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

Job 11:7

2 A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt.

Job 37:23

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

Job 5:9

4 They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Psalm 104:24

1 May the glory of the Lord endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.

Proverbs 16:4

1 Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain:

Ecclesiastes 7:13

0 For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

Ecclesiastes 7:23

The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty will change his face.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.

Matthew 11:27

Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame?

Matthew 13:22

0 Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.

Mark 7:37

And they did eat and were filled; and they took up that which was left of the fragments, seven baskets.

Romans 1:28

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

Romans 11:33

So we being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Deuteronomy 32:4

But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.