Ecclesiastes 8:17
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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Job 11:7Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
Psalms 73:16When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
Proverbs 30:3I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
Ecclesiastes 7:23All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
Isaiah 40:28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
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 →