Ecclesiastes 8:17
And I beheld all the works of God, 1 That a man shall not be able to discover 1 The work which is wrought under the sun; 1 Whatsoever things a man shall endeavor to seek, 1 However a man may labor to seek it, 1 Yet he shall not find it; 1 Yea, how much soever a wise man may speak of knowing it, 1 He shall not be able to find it: 1 For I applied all this to my heart, 1 And my heart has seen all this.
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Job 11:7Wilt thou find out the traces of the Lord? 1 Or hast thou come to the end of that which the Almighty has made? 1
Psalms 73:16The day is thine, and the night is thine; 1 Thou hast prepared the sun and the moon. 1
Proverbs 30:3God has taught me wisdom, and I know the knowledge of the holy.
Ecclesiastes 7:23All these things have I proved in wisdom: 1 I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. 1
Isaiah 40:28And now, hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and 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 →