Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
10I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.
Cross References
Genesis 1:31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Job 5:9who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
Job 37:23We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
Ecclesiastes 7:29Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.”
Ecclesiastes 11:5As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.
Matthew 13:22What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
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 →