Ecclesiastes 3:11

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

And God saw everything that he had made. And they were very good. And it became evening and morning, the sixth day.

Job 11:7

By chance, will you comprehend the footsteps of God and reach all the way to the perfection of the Almighty?

Job 37:23

We are not worthy to be able to find him. Great in strength, great in judgment, great in justice: he is indescribable.

Job 5:9

He does great and unfathomable and miraculous things without number.

Psalm 104:24

And he helped his people greatly, and he strengthened them over their enemies.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord has wrought all things because of himself. Likewise the impious is for the evil day.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I was determined in my mind to seek and to investigate wisely, concerning all that is done under the sun. God has given this very difficult task to the sons of men, so that they may be occupied by it.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

In the same manner that you do not know the way of the spirit, nor the way that bones are joined together in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the works of God, who is the Maker of all.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

For as wisdom protects, so also does money protect. But learning and wisdom have this much more: that they grant life to one who possesses them.

Ecclesiastes 7:23

For your conscience knows that you, too, have repeatedly spoken evil of others.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

which my soul still seeks and has not found. One man among a thousand, I have found; a woman among them all, I have not found.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

And I understood that man is able to find no explanation for all those works of God which are done under the sun. And so, the more that he labors to seek, so much the less does he find. Yes, even if a wise man were to claim that he knows, he would not be able to discover it.

Matthew 11:27

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. And no one knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son is willing to reveal him.

Matthew 13:22

And whoever has received the seed among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the falseness of riches suffocate the word, and he is effectively without fruit.

Mark 7:37

And so much more did they wonder, saying: "He has done all things well. He has caused both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."

Romans 1:28

And since they did not prove to have God by knowledge, God handed them over to a morally depraved way of thinking, so that they might do those things which are not fitting:

Romans 11:33

Oh, the depths of the richness of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable are his ways!

Deuteronomy 32:4

The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments. God is faithful and without any iniquity. He is just and upright.