Ecclesiastes 3:11

New English Translation

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.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God saw all that he had made – and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

Job 11:7

“Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?

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 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.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord works everything for its own ends – even the wicked for the day of disaster.

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 11:5

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?

Ecclesiastes 7:23

I have examined all this by wisdom; I said, “I am determined to comprehend this” – but it was beyond my grasp.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.

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.

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 decides to reveal him.

Matthew 13:22

The seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing.

Mark 7:37

People were completely astounded and said, “He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”

Romans 1:28

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

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!

Deuteronomy 32:4

As for the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair and upright.