Ecclesiastes 3:11

Good News Translation

He has set the right time for everything. He has given us a desire to know the future, but never gives us the satisfaction of fully understanding what he does.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God looked at everything he had made, and he was very pleased. Evening passed and morning came—that was the sixth day.

Job 11:7

Can you discover the limits and bounds of the greatness and power of God?

Job 37:23

God's power is so great that we cannot come near him; he is righteous and just in his dealings with us.

Job 5:9

We cannot understand the great things he does, and to his miracles there is no end.

Psalm 104:24

Lord, you have made so many things! How wisely you made them all! The earth is filled with your creatures.

Proverbs 16:4

Everything the Lord has made has its destiny; and the destiny of the wicked is destruction.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I determined that I would examine and study all the things that are done in this world. God has laid a miserable fate upon us.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

God made everything, and you can no more understand what he does than you understand how new life begins in the womb of a pregnant woman.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Think about what God has done. How can anyone straighten out what God has made crooked?

Ecclesiastes 7:23

I used my wisdom to test all of this. I was determined to be wise, but it was beyond me.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

This is all that I have learned: God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

and never be able to understand what God is doing. However hard you try, you will never find out. The wise may claim to know, but they don't.

Matthew 11:27

“My Father has given me all things. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Matthew 13:22

The seeds that fell among thorn bushes stand for those who hear the message; but the worries about this life and the love for riches choke the message, and they don't bear fruit.

Mark 7:37

And all who heard were completely amazed. “How well he does everything!” they exclaimed. “He even causes the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak!”

Romans 1:28

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.

Romans 11:33

How great are God's riches! How deep are his wisdom and knowledge! Who can explain his decisions? Who can understand his ways?

Deuteronomy 32:4

“The Lord is your mighty defender, perfect and just in all his ways; Your God is faithful and true; he does what is right and fair.