Ecclesiastes 11:5

New English Translation

Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

Cross References

Job 37:23

As for the Almighty, we cannot attain to him! He is great in power, but justice and abundant righteousness he does not oppress.

Job 38:4

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

Job 5:9

He does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number;

Psalm 104:24

How many living things you have made, O Lord! You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; the earth is full of the living things you have made.

Psalm 40:5

O Lord, my God, you have accomplished many things; you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us. No one can thwart you! I want to declare them and talk about them, but they are too numerous to recount!

Psalm 92:5

How great are your works, O Lord! Your plans are very intricate!

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I decided to carefully and thoroughly examine all that has been accomplished on earth. I concluded: God has given people a burdensome task that keeps them occupied.

Ecclesiastes 1:6

The wind goes to the south and circles around to the north; round and round the wind goes and on its rounds it returns.

Ecclesiastes 11:4

He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have observed the burden that God has given to people to keep them occupied.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 7:24

Whatever has happened is beyond human understanding; it is far deeper than anyone can fathom.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I discerned all that God has done: No one really comprehends what happens on earth. Despite all human efforts to discover it, no one can ever grasp it. Even if a wise person claimed that he understood, he would not really comprehend it.

Isaiah 40:28

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is an eternal God, the creator of the whole earth. He does not get tired or weary; there is no limit to his wisdom.

John 3:8

The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. 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 unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!