Ecclesiastes 8:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

Cross References

Job 5:9

Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:

Psalm 104:24

O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.

Psalm 40:5

O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

Psalm 73:16

When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?

Isaiah 40:28

Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.

Romans 11:33

O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.