Ecclesiastes 3:11

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

God gave us the ability to think about his world, but we can never completely understand everything he does. And yet, he does everything at just the right time.

Cross References

Romans 11:33

Yes, God’s riches are very great! His wisdom and knowledge have no end! No one can explain what God decides. No one can understand his ways.

Job 11:7

“Do you think you really understand God? Do you completely understand God All-Powerful?

Ecclesiastes 8:17

I also saw that no one can understand all that God does. People can try and try to understand the things that happen here on earth, but they cannot. There may be wise people who claim to understand the meaning of these things, but they are wrong. No one can understand it all.

Job 5:9

People cannot understand the wonderful things God does. His miracles are too many to count.

Genesis 1:31

God looked at everything he had made. And he saw that everything was very good. There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the sixth day.

Mark 7:37

They were all completely amazed. They said, “Look at what he has done. It’s all good. He makes deaf people able to hear and gives a new voice to people who could not talk.”

Deuteronomy 32:4

“The Lord is the Rock, and his work is perfect! Yes, all his ways are right! God is true and faithful. He is good and honest.

Psalm 104:24

Lord, you created so many things! With your wisdom you made them all. The earth is full of the living things you made.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

“There is one other thing I have learned. God made people good, but they have found many ways to be bad.”

Romans 1:28

People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking. And so they do what they should not do.

Matthew 13:22

“And what about the seed that fell among the thorny weeds? That is like the people who hear the teaching but let worries about this life and love for money stop it from growing. So it does not produce a crop in their lives.

Matthew 11:27

“My Father has given me everything. No one knows the Son—only the Father knows the Son. And no one knows the Father—only the Son knows the Father. And the only people who will know about the Father are those the Son chooses to tell.

Job 37:23

We have seen that God All-Powerful really is all powerful! But he is just and never treats anyone unfairly.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord has a plan for everything. In his plan, the wicked will be destroyed.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I decided to study and to use my wisdom to learn about everything that is done in this life. I learned that it is a very hard thing that God has given us to do.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Look at what God has made. You cannot change a thing, even if you think it is wrong.

Ecclesiastes 7:23

I used my wisdom and thought about all these things. I wanted to be wise, but I couldn’t do it.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

You don’t know where the wind blows. And you don’t know how a baby grows in its mother’s womb. In the same way, you don’t know what God will do—and he makes everything happen.