Ecclesiastes 8:17

A Conservative Version

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 labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Yea moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, yet he

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Romans 11:33

O the depth of wealth, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond finding out!

Psalm 73:16

When I thought how I might understand this, it was too painful for me,

Isaiah 40:28

Have thou not known? Have thou not heard? The everlasting God, LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, nor is weary. There is no searching of his understanding.

Job 5:9

who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As thou know not what is the way of the wind, [nor] how the bones [grow] in the womb of her who is with child, even so thou know not the work of God who does all.

Psalm 40:5

Many, O LORD my God, are the wonderful works which thou have done, and thy thoughts which are toward us. They cannot be set in order to thee. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Psalm 104:24

O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom have thou made them all. The earth is full of thy riches.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven. It is a great tribulation that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God. For who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?