Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made all things good in their time, and he has handed over the world to their disputes, so that man may not discover the work which God made from the beginning, even until the end.
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12And I realize that there is nothing better than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.
Cross References
Genesis 1:31And God saw everything that he had made. And they were very good. And it became evening and morning, the sixth day.
Job 5:9He does great and unfathomable and miraculous things without number.
Job 37:23We are not worthy to be able to find him. Great in strength, great in judgment, great in justice: he is indescribable.
Ecclesiastes 7:29which my soul still seeks and has not found. One man among a thousand, I have found; a woman among them all, I have not found.
Ecclesiastes 11:5In the same manner that you do not know the way of the spirit, nor the way that bones are joined together in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the works of God, who is the Maker of all.
Matthew 13:22And whoever has received the seed among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the falseness of riches suffocate the word, and he is effectively without fruit.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:2-11
Mutability of Human Affairs. 1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to get,… Read the whole commentary →