Ecclesiastes 8:17

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

Psalm 73:16

Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

Isaiah 40:28

Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, who hath created the ends of the earth. He shall not faint nor labour, neither is there any searching out of his wisdom.

Job 5:9

Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones are joined together in the womb of her that is with child: so thou knowest not the works of God, who is the maker of all.

Psalm 40:5

I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

Psalm 104:24

And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies,

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I proposed in my mind to seek and search out wisely concerning all things that are done under the sun. This painful occupation hath God given to the children of men, to be exercised therein.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them.