Ecclesiastes 8:17
And I understood that man is able to find no explanation for all those works of God which are done under the sun. And so, the more that he labors to seek, so much the less does he find. Yes, even if a wise man were to claim that he knows, he would not be able to discover it.
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Job 11:7By chance, will you comprehend the footsteps of God and reach all the way to the perfection of the Almighty?
Psalms 73:16Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun.
Proverbs 30:3I have not learned wisdom, and I have not known the knowledge of sanctity.
Ecclesiastes 7:23For your conscience knows that you, too, have repeatedly spoken evil of others.
Isaiah 40:28Do you not know, or have you not heard? The Lord is the eternal God, who has created the limits of the earth. He does not diminish, and he does not struggle. Neither is his wisdom searchable.
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 →