Ecclesiastes 11:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Just as you do not know how the life breath enters the human frame in the mother’s womb, So you do not know the work of God, who is working in everything.

Cross References

Job 37:23

The Almighty! We cannot find him, preeminent in power and judgment, abundant in justice, who never oppresses.

Job 38:4

Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

Job 5:9

He does things great and unsearchable, things marvelous and innumerable.

Psalm 104:24

How varied are your works, Lord! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

Psalm 40:5

Blessed the man who sets his security in the Lord, who turns not to the arrogant or to those who stray after falsehood.

Psalm 92:5

For you make me jubilant, Lord, by your deeds; at the works of your hands I shout for joy.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

and I applied my mind to search and investigate in wisdom all things that are done under the sun. A bad business God has given to human beings to be busied with.

Ecclesiastes 1:6

Shifting south, then north, back and forth shifts the wind, constantly shifting its course.

Ecclesiastes 11:4

One who pays heed to the wind will never sow, and one who watches the clouds will never reap.

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the business that God has given to mortals to be busied about.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless into their hearts so they cannot find out, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.

Ecclesiastes 7:24

What exists is far-reaching; it is deep, very deep: Who can find it out?

Ecclesiastes 8:17

and I saw all the work of God: No mortal can find out the work that is done under the sun. However much mortals may toil in searching, no one finds it out; and even if the wise claim to know, they are unable to find it out.

Isaiah 40:28

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is God from of old, creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary, and his knowledge is beyond scrutiny.

John 3:8

The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Romans 11:33

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