Ecclesiastes 3:11

New Century Version

God has given them a desire to know the future. He does everything just right and on time, but people can never completely understand what he is doing.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God looked at everything he had made, and it was very good. Evening passed, and morning came. This was the sixth day.

Job 11:7

“Can you understand the secrets of God? Can you search the limits of the Almighty?

Job 37:23

The Almighty is too high for us to reach. He has great strength; he is always right and never punishes unfairly.

Job 5:9

God does wonders that cannot be understood; he does so many miracles they cannot be counted.

Psalm 104:24

Lord, you have made many things; with your wisdom you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord makes everything go as he pleases. He has even prepared a day of disaster for evil people.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I decided to use my wisdom to learn about everything that happens on earth. I learned that God has given us terrible things to face.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

You don’t know where the wind will blow, and you don’t know how a baby grows inside the mother. In the same way, you don’t know what God is doing, or how he created everything.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Look at what God has done: No one can straighten what he has bent.

Ecclesiastes 7:23

I used wisdom to test all these things. I wanted to be wise, but it was too hard for me.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

One thing I have learned: God made people good, but they have found all kinds of ways to be bad.”

Ecclesiastes 8:17

I also saw all that God has done. Nobody can understand what God does here on earth. No matter how hard people try to understand it, they cannot. Even if wise people say they understand, they cannot; no one can really understand it.

Matthew 11:27

“My Father has given me all things. No one knows the Son, except the Father. And no one knows the Father, except the Son and those whom the Son chooses to tell.

Matthew 13:22

And what is the seed that fell among the thorny weeds? That seed is like the person who hears the teaching but lets worries about this life and the temptation of wealth stop that teaching from growing. So the teaching does not produce fruit in that person’s life.

Mark 7:37

They were completely amazed and said, “Jesus does everything well. He makes the deaf hear! And those who can’t talk he makes able to speak.”

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 to do things they should not do.

Romans 11:33

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

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is like a rock; what he does is perfect, and he is always fair. He is a faithful God who does no wrong, who is right and fair.