Ecclesiastes 3:11

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed—the sixth day.

Job 11:7

Can you find out the depths of God? or find out the perfection of the Almighty?

Job 37:23

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

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.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord has made everything for a purpose, even the wicked for the evil day.

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 11:5

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God. Who can make straight what God has made crooked?

Ecclesiastes 7:23

All these things I probed in wisdom. I said, “I will acquire wisdom”; but it was far beyond me.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

But this alone I have found: God made humankind honest, but they have pursued many designs.

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.

Matthew 11:27

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him. The Gentle Mastery of Christ.

Matthew 13:22

The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit.

Mark 7:37

They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and [the] mute speak.”

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.

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!

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock—how faultless are his deeds, how right all his ways! A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he!