Ecclesiastes 8:17

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

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 73:16

Though I tried to understand all this, it was too difficult for me,

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 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 7:13

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

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.

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!