Ecclesiastes 3:11
He hath made everything beautiful in its time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that man findeth not out from the beginning to the end the work that God doeth.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of men to toil in.
12I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life;
Cross References
Genesis 1:31And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning the sixth day.
Job 5:9Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number;
Job 37:23The Almighty, we cannot find him out: excellent in power, and in judgment, and in abundance of justice, he doth not afflict.
Ecclesiastes 7:29Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.
Ecclesiastes 11:5As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, how the bones [grow] in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all.
Matthew 13:22And he that is sown among the thorns this is he who hears the word, and the anxious care of this life, and the deceit of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
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 →