Ecclesiastes 3:11

New Living Translation

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.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.

Job 11:7

“Can you solve the mysteries of God? Can you discover everything about the Almighty?

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 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.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord has made everything for his own purposes, even the wicked for a day of disaster.

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 11:5

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Accept the way God does things, for who can straighten what he has made crooked?

Ecclesiastes 7:23

I have always tried my best to let wisdom guide my thoughts and actions. I said to myself, “I am determined to be wise.” But it didn’t work.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

But I did find this: God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path.”

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.

Matthew 11:27

“My Father has entrusted everything to me. No one truly knows the Son except the Father, and no one truly knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

Matthew 13:22

The seed that fell among the thorns represents those who hear God’s word, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life and the lure of wealth, so no fruit is produced.

Mark 7:37

They were completely amazed and said again and again, “Everything he does is wonderful. He even makes the deaf to hear and gives speech to those who cannot speak.”

Romans 1:28

Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.

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!

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock; his deeds are perfect. Everything he does is just and fair. He is a faithful God who does no wrong; how just and upright he is!