Ecclesiastes 3:11
Every thing hath he made beautiful in its [proper] time: he hath also placed the eternity in their heart, without a man's being able to find out the work that God hath made from the beginning to the end.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
10I have seen the employment, which God hath given to the sons of men to busy themselves therewith.
Cross References
Genesis 1:31And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And it was evening and it was morning, the sixth day.
Job 5:9Who doth great things which are unsearchable, marvelous things till they are without number;
Job 37:23The Almighty, whom we cannot find out, excellent in power, and in justice, and abounding in righteousness, will not afflict:
Ecclesiastes 7:29Lo, this only did I find, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought for many [sinful] devices.
Ecclesiastes 11:5As thou knowest not which is the way of the wind, as little as what is enclosed in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou canst not know the works of God who maketh all.
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 →