Ecclesiastes 11:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother’s womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.

Cross References

Job 37:23

The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

Job 38:4

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

Job 5:9

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

Psalm 104:24

O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

Psalm 40:5

You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you. Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be counted.

Psalm 92:5

How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep!

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to humans to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 1:6

The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.

Ecclesiastes 11:4

Whoever observes the wind will not sow, and whoever regards the clouds will not reap.

Ecclesiastes 3:10

I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover, he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 7:24

That which is, is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I saw all the work of God, that no one can find out what is happening under the sun. However much they may toil in seeking, they will not find it out; even though those who are wise claim to know, they cannot find it out.

Isaiah 40:28

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

John 3:8

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!