Though I tried to understand all this, it was too difficult for me,
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.
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways!
Cloud and darkness surround him; justice and right are the foundation of his throne.
The thunder of your chariot wheels resounded; your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days; indeed, my life is as nothing before you. Every man is but a breath. Selah
Lord, your mercy reaches to heaven; your fidelity, to the clouds.
yet when I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly, I learned that this also is a chase after wind.