Ecclesiastes 8:17

God's Word

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.

Cross References

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.

Psalm 40:5

You have done many miraculous things, O Lord my God. You have made many wonderful plans for us. No one compares to you! I will tell others about your miracles, which are more than I can count.

Psalm 73:16

But when I tried to understand this, it was too difficult for me.

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 3:11

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⌟.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

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

Isaiah 40:28

Don’t you know? Haven’t you heard? The eternal God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t grow tired or become weary. His understanding is beyond reach.

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.