Ecclesiastes 8:17

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

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.

Psalm 40:5

I said, "O Lord, be merciful to me. Heal my soul, because I have sinned against you."

Psalm 73:16

Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun.

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 3:11

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 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.

Isaiah 40:28

Do you not know, or have you not heard? The Lord is the eternal God, who has created the limits of the earth. He does not diminish, and he does not struggle. Neither is his wisdom searchable.

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!