Ecclesiastes 3:11
He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot flnd out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
10I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it.
12And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.
Cross References
Genesis 1:31And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.
Job 5:9Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:
Job 37:23We cannot find him worthily : he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.
Ecclesiastes 7:29Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.
Ecclesiastes 11:5As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones are joined together in the womb of her that is with child: so thou knowest not the works of God, who is the maker of all.
Matthew 13:22And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.
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 →