Ecclesiastes 11:5

New Living Translation

Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.

Cross References

Job 37:23

We cannot imagine the power of the Almighty; but even though he is just and righteous, he does not destroy us.

Job 38:4

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much.

Job 5:9

He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles.

Psalm 104:24

O Lord, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures.

Psalm 40:5

O Lord my God, you have performed many wonders for us. Your plans for us are too numerous to list. You have no equal. If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds, I would never come to the end of them.

Psalm 92:5

O Lord, what great works you do! And how deep are your thoughts.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I devoted myself to search for understanding and to explore by wisdom everything being done under heaven. I soon discovered that God has dealt a tragic existence to the human race.

Ecclesiastes 1:6

The wind blows south, and then turns north. Around and around it goes, blowing in circles.

Ecclesiastes 11:4

Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the burden God has placed on us all.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 7:24

Wisdom is always distant and difficult to find.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

I realized that no one can discover everything God is doing under the sun. Not even the wisest people discover everything, no matter what they claim.

Isaiah 40:28

Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding.

John 3:8

The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.”

Romans 11:33

Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!