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Ecclesiastes 11:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Just as you don’t know the path of the wind, or how bones develop in   the womb of a pregnant woman, so also you don’t know the work of God who makes everything.

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The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going.   So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.’


I observed all the work of God and concluded that a person is unable to discover the work that is done under the sun. Even though a person labours hard to explore it, he cannot find it;  even if a wise person claims to know it, he is unable to discover it.


Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgements and untraceable his ways!


Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the whole earth. He never becomes faint or weary; there is no limit to his understanding.


What exists is beyond reach and very deep.  Who can discover it?


Where were you when I established  the earth? Tell me, if you have  understanding.


The Almighty #– #we cannot reach him – he is exalted in power! He will not violate justice and abundant righteousness,


He does great  and unsearchable things, wonders without number.


Gusting to the south, turning to the north, turning, turning, goes the wind, and the wind returns in its cycles.


I applied my mind to examine  and explore through wisdom all that is done under heaven.  God has given people  this miserable task to keep them occupied.


I have seen the task that God has given the children of Adam to keep them occupied.


He has made everything appropriate  in its time.  He has also put eternity in their hearts,  but no one can discover the work God has done from beginning to end.


One who watches the wind will not sow, and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.





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