Ecclesiastes 3:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Job 11:7

“Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?

Job 37:23

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

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.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

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 11:5

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked?

Ecclesiastes 7:23

All this I have tested by wisdom; I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

See, this alone I found, that God made human beings straightforward, but they have devised many schemes.

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.

Matthew 11:27

All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Matthew 13:22

As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.

Mark 7:37

They were astounded beyond measure, saying, “He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.

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!

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he;