Ecclesiastes 3:11

God's Word

It is beautiful how God has done everything at the right time. He has put a sense of eternity in people’s minds. Yet, mortals still can’t grasp what God is doing from the beginning to the end ⌞of time⌟.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

And God saw everything that he had made and that it was very good. There was evening, then morning—the sixth day.

Job 11:7

“Can you discover God’s hidden secrets, or are you able to find the Almighty’s limits?

Job 37:23

The Almighty, whom we can’t reach, is great in power and judgment, has more than enough righteousness, and does not oppress.

Job 5:9

He does great things that ⌞we⌟ cannot understand and miracles that ⌞we⌟ cannot count.

Psalm 104:24

What a large number of things you have made, O Lord! You made them all by wisdom. The earth is filled with your creatures.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord has made everything for his own purpose, even wicked people for the day of trouble.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

With all my heart I used wisdom to study and explore everything done under heaven. Mortals are weighed down with a terrible burden that God has placed on them.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you don’t know how the breath of life enters the limbs of a child within its mother’s womb, you also don’t understand how God, who made everything, works.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider what God has done! Who can straighten what God has bent?

Ecclesiastes 7:23

I used wisdom to test all of this. I said, “I want to be wise, but it is out of my reach.”

Ecclesiastes 7:29

I have found only this: God made people decent, but they looked for many ways ⌞to avoid being decent⌟.”

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I saw everything that God has done. No one is able to grasp the work that is done under the sun. However hard a person may search for it, he will not find ⌞its meaning⌟. Even though a wise person claims to know, he is not able to grasp it.

Matthew 11:27

“My Father has turned everything over to me. Only the Father knows the Son. And no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son is willing to reveal him.

Matthew 13:22

The seed planted among thornbushes ⌞is another person who⌟ hears the word. But the worries of life and the deceitful pleasures of riches choke the word so that it can’t produce anything.

Mark 7:37

Jesus completely amazed the people. They said, “He has done everything well. He makes the deaf hear and the mute talk.”

Romans 1:28

And because they thought it was worthless to acknowledge God, God allowed their own immoral minds to control them. So they do these indecent things.

Romans 11:33

God’s riches, wisdom, and knowledge are so deep that it is impossible to explain his decisions or to understand his ways.

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is a rock. What he does is perfect. All his ways are fair. He is a faithful God, who does no wrong. He is honorable and reliable.