Ecclesiastes 8:17
Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.
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Job 11:7Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?
Psalms 73:16When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;
Proverbs 30:3I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One.
Ecclesiastes 7:23All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
Isaiah 40:28Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 8:15-17
The Mysteries of Providence. 14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity. 15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. 16 When I… Read the whole commentary →