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Ecclesiastes 3:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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


Can you fathom the depths of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?


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.


He does great  and unsearchable things, wonders without number.


God saw all that he had made, and it was very good indeed.  Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.


They were extremely astonished and said, ‘He has done everything well.  He even makes the deaf  hear and the mute speak.’


The Rock   #– #his work is perfect; all his ways are just. A faithful God,  without bias, he is righteous and true.


Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright,  but they pursued many schemes.’


And because they did not think it worth while to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.


Now the one sown among the thorns #– #this is one who hears the word, but the worries of this age   and the deceitfulness   of wealth   choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.


All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires   to reveal him.


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


The Lord has prepared everything for his purpose – even the wicked for the day of disaster.


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.


Consider the work of God, for who can straighten out what he has made crooked?


I have tested all this by wisdom. I resolved, ‘I will be wise,’ but it was beyond me.


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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