Ecclesiastes 3:11
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
KJV
Cuncta fecit bona in tempore suo, et mundum tradidit disputationi eorum, ut non inveniat homo opus quod operatus est Deus ab initio usque ad finem.
Vulgate
τὰ σύμπαντα ἃ ἐποίησεν καλὰ ἐν καιρῷ αὐτοῦ· καί γε σύμπαντα τὸν αἰῶνα ἔδωκεν ἐν καρδίᾳ αὐτῶν, ὅπως μὴ εὕρῃ ὁ ἄνθρωπος τὸ ποίημα ὃ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς καὶ μέχρι τέλους.
LXX
He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.
ASV
אֶת הַ/כֹּ֥ל עָשָׂ֖ה יָפֶ֣ה בְ/עִתּ֑/וֹ גַּ֤ם אֶת הָ/עֹלָם֙ נָתַ֣ן בְּ/לִבָּ֔/ם מִ/בְּלִ֞י אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹא יִמְצָ֣א הָ/אָדָ֗ם אֶת הַֽ/מַּעֲשֶׂ֛ה אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂ֥ה הָ/אֱלֹהִ֖ים מֵ/רֹ֥אשׁ וְ/עַד סֽוֹף
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
19 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Deut 32:4 — He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- Eccl 3:22 — Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
- Eccl 7:13 — Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
- Eccl 7:29 — Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
- Eccl 8:6 — Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
- Eccl 8:17 — Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man
- Eccl 8:17 — Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man
- Gen 1:31 — And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
- Job 5:9 — Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
- Job 9:10 — Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
- Job 11:7 — Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
- Job 11:7 — Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
- Job 37:5 — God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
- Job 37:23 — Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
- Mark 4:28 — For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
- Mark 7:37 — And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
- Matt 11:27 — All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
- Matt 13:22 — He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
- Ps 104:24 — O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
- Ps 111:2 — The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
- Rom 1:19 — Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
- Rom 1:28 — And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
- Rom 11:33 — O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
- Rom 11:33 — O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
- Song 2:11 — For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;