Ecclesiastes 8:17

Tree of Life Version

then I saw all the work of God. No one can comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite all human efforts to seek it out, no one comprehends. Even if a wise person claims to know, he cannot really comprehend.

Cross References

Job 5:9

Who does great things beyond comprehension, wonders without number.

Psalm 104:24

Adonai, how countless are Your works! In wisdom You made them all— the earth is full of Your creatures.

Psalm 40:5

Blessed is the one who put his confidence in Adonai, who has not turned to the arrogant, nor to those who fall into falsehood.

Psalm 73:16

But when I tried to make sense of this, it was troubling in my eyes—

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my heart to seek and examine by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a burdensome task God has given the sons of men to keep them occupied.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you do not know how the spirit passes into the bones in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes all things.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Moreover, He has set eternity in their heart—yet without the possibility that humankind can ever discover the work that God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God, for who can straighten what He has bent?

Isaiah 40:28

Have you not known? Have you not heard? Adonai is the eternal God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not grow tired or weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how incomprehensible His ways!