But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains; your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.
Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.
Your way was through the sea, your path through the mighty waters, yet your footprints were unseen.
Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a chasing after wind.
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.
O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!