Ecclesiastes 8:17
Then did I see [in] the whole work of God, that a man is not able to find out the work that is done under the sun; inasmuch as though a man were to toil to seek for it, he would yet not find it; and even if the wise were to think to know it, he would yet not be able to find it.
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Job 11:7Canst thou find out the experience of God? or canst thou find [the way] unto the utmost limit of the Almighty?
Psalms 73:16And when I should think to know this, it would be trouble in my eyes;
Proverbs 30:3Nor have I learned wisdom, so that I should have knowledge of the Holy One.
Ecclesiastes 7:23All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
Isaiah 40:28Dost thou not know? hast thou not heard? The God of everlasting is the Lord, is the Creator of the ends of the earth; he will not be faint and weary; unsearchable is 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 →