Ecclesiastes 11:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

No one can explain how a baby breathes before it is born. So how can anyone explain what God does? After all, he created everything.

Cross References

Job 37:23

God cannot be seen— but his power is great, and he is always fair.

Job 38:4

How did I lay the foundation for the earth? Were you there?

Job 5:9

His miracles are marvellous, more than we can count.

Psalm 104:24

Our LORD, by your wisdom you made so many things; the whole earth is covered with your living creatures.

Psalm 40:5

You, LORD God, have done many wonderful things, and you have planned marvellous things for us. No one is like you! I would never be able to tell all you have done.

Psalm 92:5

You do great things, LORD. Your thoughts are too deep

Ecclesiastes 1:13

With all my wisdom I tried to understand everything that happens here on earth. And God has made this so hard for us humans to do.

Ecclesiastes 1:6

The wind blows south, the wind blows north; round and round it blows over and over again.

Ecclesiastes 11:4

If you worry about the weather and don't plant seeds, you won't harvest a crop.

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen what difficult things God demands of us.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God makes everything happen at the right time. Yet none of us can ever fully understand all he has done, and he puts questions in our minds about the past and the future.

Ecclesiastes 7:24

The truth is beyond us. It's far too deep.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

I saw everything God does, and I realized that no one can really understand what happens. We may be very wise, but no matter how much we try or how much we claim to know, we cannot understand it all.

Isaiah 40:28

Don't you know? Haven't you heard? The LORD is the eternal God, Creator of the earth. He never gets weary or tired; his wisdom cannot be measured.

John 3:8

Only God's Spirit gives new life. The Spirit is like the wind that blows wherever it wants to. You can hear the wind, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going.

Romans 11:33

Who can measure the wealth and wisdom and knowledge of God? Who can understand his decisions or explain what he does?