Ecclesiastes 3:11
All the things which he has made are beautiful in his time: he has also set the whole world in their heart, that man might not find out the work which God has wrought from the beginning even to the end.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
10I have seen all the trouble, which God has given to the sons of men to be troubled with.
12I know that there is no good in them, except for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
Cross References
Genesis 1:31And God saw all the things that he had made, and, behold, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Job 5:9who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvelous, of which there is no number:
Job 37:23and we do not find another his equal in strength: as for him that judges justly, do you not think that he listens?
Ecclesiastes 7:29which my soul sought after, but I found not: for I have found one man of a thousand; but a woman in all these I have not found.
Ecclesiastes 11:5Among whom none knows what is the way of the wind: as the bones are hid in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you shall not know the works of God, even all things whatever he shall do.
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 →